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

Nina Simone Quotes

"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet." - Nina Simone

Thelonious Monk Quotes

"We have two kids, my wife and myself." - Thelonious Monk

Billie Holiday Quotes

"Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three." - Billie Holiday

Artie Shaw Quotes

"You have no idea of the people I didn't marry." - Artie Shaw