55 Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

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

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

The idea of life is to give and receive.

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