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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Gillespie Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Gillespie Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Gillespie Quotes

Paul Walter Hauser

More than anything, I want to keep working with people of talent like Craig Gillespie, Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. But there’s also those long-dreamt-of moments: I’d love to host ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I’d love to do a Penguin stand-alone movie at Warner Bros., I’d love to do a Teddy Roosevelt biopic.

– Paul Walter Hauser

Madlib

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they’d come through.

– Madlib

John Coltrane

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

– John Coltrane

Jamie Cullum

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I’ve worked out why this is – unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

– Jamie Cullum

GRiZ

I just really liked those trumpets and horns – Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie – and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

– GRiZ

Elmore Leonard

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

– Elmore Leonard

Ed Gillespie

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

– Ed Gillespie

Donald Byrd

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that’s where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy’s band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, ‘You want to play?’

– Donald Byrd

Derek Trucks

I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton’s Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just the best musician in the room.

– Derek Trucks

Carolyn See

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip ‘Gillespie and I.’ If you’d like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

– Carolyn See

Carolyn See

Gillespie and I’ is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

– Carolyn See

Bill Wyman

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

– Bill Wyman

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