"When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!" - Dizzy Gillespie
source: Concert, Princeton University (November 11, 1979)
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Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"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." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"All those sevenths --- man, I never heard anything like those things until [Billy Strayhorn]." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Louis is not dead, for his music is and will remain in the hearts and minds of countless millions of the world's peoples, and in the playing of hundreds of thousands of musicians who have come under his influence." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Miles got a mysticque about him — plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"It was a financial fiasco because all our checks bounced. Charlie Parker cashed his at the box office, so he was 'in'. Then the master tapes were taken by [Charles] Mingus and put out, and we didn't receive any money for years and years and years and years." - Dizzy Gillespie (on "Jazz at Massey Hall")
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"When people ask me why my horn's like that, I say 'Why don't you ask a French horn player why the bell curves backwards, and he's got his hand up in it and he's playing with his left fingers?' My horn's not nearly as weird looking as a French horn."
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"If it hadn't been for him, there wouldn't have been none of us. I want to thank Mr. Louis Armstrong for my livelihood." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"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." - Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition." - Dizzy Gillespie
