Dexter Gordon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Music #Pillow
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
Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Music #Beautiful #Jazz
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Music #Beautiful #Jazz
In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.
-- Dexter Gordon

#War #Men #Nuclear
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Sound #Music Is
If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Music #Play #Might
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Music #Tunes #Kind
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Europe #Jazz #Influence
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
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
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
Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.
-- Dexter Gordon

#Doors #Guy #Next
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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