Ed Gillespie Quotes

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

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

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

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

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

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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

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

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.

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

Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.

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

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

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

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

The idea of life is to give and receive.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

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.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.