Dexter Gordon Quotes

If you can’t play the blues… you might as well hang it up.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

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

Darlin… be-bop is the music of the future.

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

What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word – I love it.

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

It’s certainly not just a spot opinion; it’s something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly ‘the guy next door’.

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

Music is a reservoir… of sounds.

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.

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.

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

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

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