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“I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.”

Want I Can Stars Stage Dancing Dance Dancing With The Stars Bops

Author:Angela Lansbury

“I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.”

People Thinking Tired Old Things Bops Same Old Thing

Author:Rick James

“I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.”

Different Done Wanted Comedy Drama Different Things Bops

Author:Frank Oz

“We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.”

Way Light Eye Behinds Music Generations Movement Grew Grew Up Musician Intellectual Raised Flash My Generation Bulbs Light Bulb Bops

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.”

People Firsts Made Jobs Heard Radio Albums Video Drummer Bops

Author:Eric Hernandez

“The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.”

Giving Stills Kids School Faces Black White Poor Optimism Give Me Contrary Asian Bumps Bops

Author:Maya Angelou

“There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.”

Author:Coleman Hawkins

“It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.”

Trying Play Helping Bigs Behinds Band Beats Clean Jazz Notes Steady Big Things Flexible Continuity Bops

Author:Charlie Parker

“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.”

Soul Film Artist Mines Goes On Taste Band Standards Cat Police Pops Lists Locals Genre Range Score 80s Vocal Folds Funk Annie Motown Bops Film Scores

Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

“Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.”

Book Eye Pages Insight Pops Prose Volume Bops

Author:Julie Burchill

“Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!”

Thinking Dream Morning Heard Feet Beats Pops Hey Daddy Rumble Boogie Bops

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967

“Zip zop wop boopity bop.”

Author:Bill Cosby

“If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.”

Ifs Music Jazz Musical Bops

Author:Thelonious Monk

“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”

Music Missing Jazz Jazz Music Playing Music Missing You Vowels Scrabble Playing Jazz Bops Jazz Records

Author:Duke Ellington

“I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'”

Said Ems Stations Songwriting Bus Dishes Washing Greyhounds Washing Dishes Bops Greyhound Bus

Author:Little Richard

“I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.”

Wanted Night Hate Song Cities I Hate Blow Hey Saturday Saturday Night Mystique Bops

Author:Joey Ramone

“Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.”

Way Deliberate Bops

Author:Thelonious Monk

“Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...”

Ifs Knows Way Wells Said Used Listening Hip Hop Pops Rap Expected Hips Teenager Abstract Brown Hops Cycles Quests Daddy Bops

Author:Q-Tip

“If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”

Ifs Soul Play Guy Jazz Bops

Author:Count Basie

“Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.”

Want Ends Jazz Dance Music End Of The Road Bops

Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.”

Men Has Beens Art Past Mistake Impossible Heard Streets Walking Jazz South Stores Afternoon Clothings Imaginary Monk Charlie Sidewalk Dizzy Bops 42nd Street

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“Bop is no love-child of jazz.”

Children Jazz No Love Children Love Bops

Author:Charlie Parker

“Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'”

Said Guy Jazz Making Money Comedian They Said Bops

Author:Charlie Parker

“I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.”

People Knows Shows Stupid Jazz Bops Dixieland

Author:Miles Davis

“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.”

Kind War Young Taken Ready Revolution Musician Jazz All Kinds Fusion Bops

Author:Gunther Schuller

“Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!”

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Author:Dan Feiszli

“Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop.”

Capable Diverse Crossover Bops

Author:Scott Yanow

“Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player.”

Hard Player Superiors Bops

Author:Scott Yanow

“A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.”

Explanation Bops

Author:Little Richard

“But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.”

Author:Squarepusher

“Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.”

Down And Dancing Horizontal Bops

Author:Bob Seger