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" Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. "

Maynard Ferguson
" I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss. "

Maynard Ferguson
" The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. "

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

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

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

Dizzy Gillespie
" Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.' "

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

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

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. "

Dizzy Gillespie
" Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G. "

Lionel Hampton
" Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men. "

Lionel Hampton
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