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
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.
trouble mutual-respect mutual
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
two firsts revelations
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
bird world stealing
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
play essence trying
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
past feet musician
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
music taken play
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
music men serious
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
writing thinking ideas
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
winning trying goes-on
Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.
music careers sound
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.