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Top 25 Dizzy Gillespie Quotes (2025 Update)

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.”

1. “Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.”

2. “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.”

3. “As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”

4. “Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Where there’s no mutual respect, there’s trouble!”

5. “Where there’s no mutual respect, there’s trouble!”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “The idea of life is to give and receive.”

6. “The idea of life is to give and receive.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Jazz will be the classical music of the future.”

7. “Jazz will be the classical music of the future.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it’s supposed to be.”

8. “I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it’s supposed to be.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

9. “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.”

10. “Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there’s trouble.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”

12. “Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.”

16. “I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don’t play them exactly like they do in their own country – I add my personal touch.”

18. “I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don’t play them exactly like they do in their own country – I add my personal touch.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”

20. “There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!”

21. “When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “They’re not particular whether you’re playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.”

22. “They’re not particular whether you’re playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”

23. “One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Miles got a mystique about him-plus he’s at the top of his profession. And he’s got way, way, way more money.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.”

27. “I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn’t forestall creativity.”

28. “Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn’t forestall creativity.”

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Quote: “I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.”

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

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