Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."
- Dizzy Gillespie
(Related: Play)

"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
(Related: Dance)

"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that."
- Dizzy Gillespie
(Related: Men, Music)

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
- Dizzy Gillespie
(Related: Music, Care)

"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."
- Dizzy Gillespie
(Related: Ideas, Example, Force)

"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

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
- Dizzy Gillespie
(Related: Life, Play)