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Dizzy Gillespie Quotes: You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
         

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.


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



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



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



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One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.



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I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.



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

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



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



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Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!



Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.





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