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Dizzy Gillespie

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

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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

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"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"

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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."

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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."

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"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"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."

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