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

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

- 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…

- 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 …

- Dizzy Gillespie

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

- Dizzy Gillespie

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

- Dizzy Gillespie

The idea of life is to give and receive.

- Dizzy Gillespie

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

- Dizzy Gillespie

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

- Dizzy Gillespie