Dizzy Gillespie Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

Dizzy Gillespie

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Dizzy Gillespie

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

Dizzy Gillespie

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

Dizzy Gillespie

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 time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

Dizzy Gillespie

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.

Dizzy Gillespie

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

Dizzy Gillespie