Top 34 Be Bop Quotes
#1. If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
Thelonious Monk
#3. On January 28th, 1982, I wrote in my diary, "Rock and roll is a king-sized version of jazzy, puck, swing, and be-bop. I don't want that. However, rhythmic beat's fine.
Rebecca Rose Orton
#5. We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.
Ishmael Reed
#6. My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
#7. But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
Tom Jenkinson
#8. I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.
Paula Heller Garland
#9. I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.
Miles Davis
#10. There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.
Coleman Hawkins
#11. The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
Maya Angelou
#12. It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
Charlie Parker
#13. I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.
Joey Ramone
#14. Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.
Scott Yanow
#15. As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.
Eric Hernandez
#16. Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Duke Ellington
#17. Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player ...
Scott Yanow
#18. I think the people are just looking for freedom in music ... There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.
Rick James
#19. If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
Count Basie
#21. Vhat is your nom?" Preston had a lazy eye, and the alcohol added to the lopsided effect of his gaze.
"Shannon Tinker, and I watch you like you're a TV show." Shannon added a bop to her stance, unconsciously dancing to the beat of the song constantly playing in her head.
Debra Anastasia
#22. I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
Angela Lansbury
#23. Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
Dizzy Gillespie
#24. I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'
Little Richard
#25. Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'
Charlie Parker
#26. After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Gunther Schuller
#27. When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap.
C. K. Prahalad
#28. I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
Frank Oz
#30. Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!
Dan Feiszli
#32. Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
Julie Burchill
#33. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
Langston Hughes
#34. Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
Bob Seger
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