Picture Quotes I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. —Carla BleyWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Man always thinks about the past before he dies... —Jet BlackWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is. —David SanbornWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. —Jet BlackWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically,... Read more » —Dr. JohnWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. —Robert WyattWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes [On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. —Ella FitzgeraldWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about. —Jet BlackWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Bebop has set music back twenty years. —Tommy DorseyWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame. —Rahsaan Roland KirkWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging. —Jay McShannWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did. —Woody HermanWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god. —J. J. JohnsonWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it). —Dexter GordonWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, —Donald ByrdWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes [Bebop is] Chinese music. —Louis ArmstrongWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. —Cat PowerWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this