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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
— Graeme Le Saux
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
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
— George Gillespie
We are in favor of greater free markets.
— Ed Gillespie
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
— Elmore Leonard
The magistrate is keeper of both Tables, and is to punish the violation of the first Table, as well as of the second.
— George Gillespie
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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.
— Gordie Gillespie
If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
— Ed Gillespie
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
— Dizzy Gillespie
I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
— Ken Gillespie
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
— Dizzy Gillespie
I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
— Andy Serkis
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
— Dizzy Gillespie
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
— Dizzy Gillespie
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.
— Gordie Gillespie
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
— Dizzy Gillespie
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
— Ed Gillespie
I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.
— Aaron Gillespie
War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.
— Ken Gillespie
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
— Ed Gillespie
When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone
— Bonnie Gillespie
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
— Ed Gillespie
Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.
— Aaron Gillespie
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
— Dizzy Gillespie
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
— Dizzy Gillespie
If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
— Aaron Gillespie
There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
— Ed Gillespie
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
— Karin Gillespie
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
— Ed Gillespie
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
— Ed Gillespie
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
— Ed Gillespie
I believe we're the party of small business.
— Ed Gillespie
...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.
— Hollis Gillespie
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
— Carolyn See
God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.
— Aaron Gillespie
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
— Ed Gillespie
Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.
— Dizzy Gillespie
the key to settling into a peaceful place is all about taming reaction.
— Spike Gillespie
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
— Dizzy Gillespie
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Politics swings like a pendulum.
— Ed Gillespie
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
— George Gillespie
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
— Ed Gillespie
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You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
— Dizzy Gillespie
If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?
— George Gillespie
I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
— Aaron Gillespie
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
— Ed Gillespie
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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.
— 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
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
— Dizzy Gillespie
The idea of life is to give and receive.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.
— Dizzy Gillespie
People like passion in politics.
— Ed Gillespie
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!
— Dizzy Gillespie
Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.
— Bonnie Gillespie
