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.
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. - Dizzy Gillespie
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
- Dizzy Gillespie
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself. - Dizzy Gillespie
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when y… - Dizzy Gillespie
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when y…
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 … - Dizzy Gillespie
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 …
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange. - Dizzy Gillespie
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference. - Dizzy Gillespie
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
The idea of life is to give and receive. - Dizzy Gillespie
The idea of life is to give and receive.
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that. - Dizzy Gillespie
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. - Dizzy Gillespie
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
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