You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
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.
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.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference. - Dizzy Gillespie
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
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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