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
Dizzy Gillespie quotes about
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.
music taken play
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
music careers sound
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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.
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.
music men serious
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
past feet musician
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
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 reason process
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
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.
music dance long
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.