Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespiewas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth21 October 1917
CityCheraw, SC
CountryUnited States of America
music way jazz
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
music guitar jazz
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
play jazz composition
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
jazz miles stage
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.
done apologizing jazz
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
want bops jazz
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
jazz classical-music
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
gentleman jazz indifference
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
american-musician care
I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds.
backward influence layers
Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.
american-musician particular whether
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
american-musician example force ideas process reasons teach
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
blessed wife alcohol
I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.
creativity band charlie
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.