“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”
Other Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
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 
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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
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I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
Dizzy Gillespie
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Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
Dizzy Gillespie
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