[Another friend is Jimmy Heath, who wrote a composition called] Without You, No Me, ... He said, 'Without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a Jimmy Heath.' I feel the same way, because without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a James Moody. -Dizzy Gillespie

 

[Another friend is Jimmy Heath, who wrote a composition called] Without You, No Me, ... He said, 'Without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a Jimmy Heath.' I feel the same way, because without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a James Moody.


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This quote is just one of 5 total Dizzy Gillespie quotes in our collection. Dizzy Gillespie is known for saying '[Another friend is Jimmy Heath, who wrote a composition called] Without You, No Me, ... He said, 'Without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a Jimmy Heath.' I feel the same way, because without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a James Moody.' as well as some of the following 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

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Dizzy Gillespie

[Another friend is Jimmy Heath, who wrote a composition called] Without You, No Me, ... He said, 'Without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a Jimmy Heath.' I feel the same way, because without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a James Moody.

Dizzy Gillespie

Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.

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