If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

- Dexter Gordon

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

- Dexter Gordon

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going o…

- Dexter Gordon

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

- Dexter Gordon

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving y…

- Dexter Gordon

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

- Dexter Gordon

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

- Dexter Gordon

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

- Dexter Gordon

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

- Dexter Gordon