Dexter Gordon Quotes

• I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Jazz, Pillow

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• Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Dream, People

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• Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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• Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Jazz

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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• In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

  Dexter Gordon

  War, Men, Nuclear

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

  Dexter Gordon

  Being Real, Tunes, Able

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• If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Play, Might

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• Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

  Dexter Gordon

  Sound, Music Is, Reservoirs

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• Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

  Dexter Gordon

  Play, Bebop

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• To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

  Dexter Gordon

  Nice, Ego, Littles

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

  Dexter Gordon

  Music, Tunes, Jazz

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• Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

  Dexter Gordon

  Doors, Guy, Next

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• Jazz to me is a living music.

  Dexter Gordon

  Jazz

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• If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

  Dexter Gordon

  Black, Would Be, Unfaithful

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• In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

  Dexter Gordon

  Europe, Jazz, Influence

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• A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

  Dexter Gordon

  Opportunity, Giving, Records

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