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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."

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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."

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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."

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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

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"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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"I never really did any disco dancing."

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"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."

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"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."

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"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."

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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."

Dance

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

Life

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Dizzy Gillespie
"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."

Ideas

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

Men

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

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

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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."

History

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