Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespiewas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth21 October 1917
CityCheraw, SC
CountryUnited States of America
crazy men play
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
music men serious
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
jazz miles stage
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
done apologizing jazz
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
want bops jazz
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
jazz classical-music
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
growing-up want married-with-children
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!
ideas giving life-is
The idea of life is to give and receive.
play knowing musician
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
trouble mutual-respect mutual
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
sweet play style
Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.
music dance long
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
music reason process
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
two firsts revelations
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.