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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

Bird, Charlie, Gave, Music, Stealing, World

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

Jazz, Money, Music, Mystique, Way

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.

Everyone, People, Thing, Thinking, Want

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

Crazy, Man, Men, Play, Solos

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.

Loved, Mean, Men, Parker, Rift

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

Learn, Life, Music, Play, Taken

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Band, Charlie, Creativity, Performances, Small

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 you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

Bare, Essence, Play, Things, Trying

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Classical, Classical Music, Future, Jazz, Music

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

Knowing, Musician, Play

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

Men, Music, Serious

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

Disappears, Important, Next, Relations, Trouble

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

Benny, Carter, Growing Up, Like, Married With Children, Want

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

Gentleman, Gentlemen, Indifference, Jazz, Ladies, Thank

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Composition, Compositions, Jazz, Play

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Careers, Like, Music, Sound, Sounds

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

Apologizing, Department, Done, Jazz, Used

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Mutual, Mutual Respect, Respect, Trouble

There are a lot of great players. . . a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Bellson, Player, Players, Something Special, Special

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Jazz, Know, Miles, Stage, Walks

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