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Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.

Dizzy Gillespie's Popular Quotes

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

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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.

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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…

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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 …

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

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

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The idea of life is to give and receive.

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

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

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