Bebop Quotes

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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from.-Spike Speigel

Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script