Top 100 Gillespie's Quotes
#1. The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
Diane Ackerman
#2. Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.
Aaron Gillespie
#3. I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
Dizzy Gillespie
#4. I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie
#5. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
Dizzy Gillespie
#6. So, don't feel deprived. You are not giving up anything. You are simply stopping a dangerous and harmful addiction. It really is that simple to break an addiction. If you have the right attitude, staying sugar-free becomes a lot easier than you could possibly imagine.
David Gillespie
#7. If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
Aaron Gillespie
#8. And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
Ed Gillespie
#9. The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
Ed Gillespie
#10. I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
Ed Gillespie
#11. Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
Dizzy Gillespie
#12. We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie
#13. There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
George Gillespie
#14. But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
Ed Gillespie
#15. I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
Elmore Leonard
#16. Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.
Dizzy Gillespie
#17. I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
Dizzy Gillespie
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.
Ray Brown
#21. George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
Ed Gillespie
#22. I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
Dizzy Gillespie
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
Dizzy Gillespie
#27. The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie
#29. 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
#30. One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.
Ken Gillespie
#31. If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
Ed Gillespie
#32. Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?
Donna Gillespie
#33. How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.
George Gillespie
#34. I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"
Dee Dee Ramone
#35. God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.
Aaron Gillespie
#36. When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
Ed Gillespie
#37. The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?
Nick Gillespie
#38. Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
John Lewis
#39. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.
Gabriella Gillespie
#40. There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
George Gillespie
#41. I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan. What does one have to with another?
Maliha Masood
#43. 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
#44. I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
Ed Gillespie
#45. I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
Aaron Gillespie
#46. Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
Ed Gillespie
#47. The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
George Gillespie
#48. So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
#50. 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
#52. One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
Ed Gillespie
#54. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.
Gordie Gillespie
#55. Her spirit rose with the horns and she was seized suddenly with a fierce love of all this country. She felt her mind a great wing stretched out protectively over the land.
Donna Gillespie
#56. Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.
Donna Gillespie
#57. I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
Dizzy Gillespie
#58. It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.
Ken Gillespie
#59. Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an
influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro - perhaps initially
intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff 's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
Ted Gioia
#60. You don't have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don't have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don't have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don't even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.
Aaron Gillespie
#61. On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
Ed Gillespie
#62. Possible outfits rolled in her head like a slot machine in Atlantic City.
Terri Gillespie
#63. Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie
#64. They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie
#65. The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie
#66. If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Karin Gillespie
#67. When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
Ed Gillespie
#68. Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
Ed Gillespie
#69. I don't believe we're the party of big business.
Ed Gillespie
#70. Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But
Mitch Albom
#71. 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
#72. If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
Ed Gillespie
#73. Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
Graeme Le Saux
#74. Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
Dizzy Gillespie
#75. There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
Dizzy Gillespie
#76. When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone
Bonnie Gillespie
#77. The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.
Ken Gillespie
#78. I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
Andy Serkis
#80. I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
Ed Gillespie
#81. Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
Dizzy Gillespie
#82. Shira turned and blew kisses toward her clients who had pressed their faces against the salon window like children in a candy store and she their Willy Wonka of beauty.
Terri Gillespie
#83. I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.
Dizzy Gillespie
#84. The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
Ed Gillespie
#85. 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
#86. I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.
Dizzy Gillespie
#87. ...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.
Hollis Gillespie
#88. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#89. I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
Ed Gillespie
#90. Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.
Craig Gillespie
#91. I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
Ed Gillespie
#92. The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.
George Gillespie
#93. 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
#97. 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
#98. the key to settling into a peaceful place is all about taming reaction.
Spike Gillespie
#99. 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
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