Dizzy Quotations

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.

I got knocked out a little and was unconscious. I got dizzy for a second. I couldn't see.

I don't know where he (Ron) gets his genes from. I get dizzy on a ladder.

I got a little dizzy before the game but by then it was too late. I think the competitive nature and the adrenaline outweighed any sickness or fatigue.

I had kind of a dizzy feeling throughout the whole game. It's going to take some time, but there's nothing you can do but try to battle back and get ready for the next game.

The pain was a lot more than it is now, but what was stopping me from playing was the dizziness. Every time I made a quick move or shook my head, I would be dizzy right after for a little while. That's why I wasn't playing.

I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

I was a little dizzy out there, but I kept playing. I wanted to keep fighting. I just watched the film, so it refreshed my memory.

I'm honored, and absolutely floored, by this. I know some of the members are guys like Doc Blanchard, Dizzy Dean and Walter Payton. I got a call from (Hall of Fame publicist) Glen Waddle and I remember telling him, 'Are you kidding me?' I had to sit down.

I was very green and very green about being in America. An 18-year-old girl is like a 16-year-old girl over here. I felt very young and out of my depth. I would stop in shop doorways because I would get so dizzy from the pace.

Those kids are amazing. It makes you dizzy just watching them.

one more creature dizzy with love

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

What I really hope to do is leave you dizzy by the end of this.

Clothes make me dizzy.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

I started to feel unwell at the beginning of the second set, after two or three games. I was feeling dizzy like I couldn't coordinate what my legs and what my hands were doing. I felt like a beginner out there.

The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a D in English, I did a hairdressing course and a beauty certificate.

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

First, you get really dizzy and you learn that you have to center, to stay in one spot.

The only thing I remember is waking up on the floor. I was pretty dizzy for awhile and my vision was blurred. (The collision) knocked all the food out of my teeth; I won't have to brush my teeth tonight.

I'm okay. I was a little bit dizzy at the beginning but I'm all right now.

It's dizzy high, and we're looking at a very overbought market. We're looking for a correction. It has to come at some point. However, given where oil is, it may well give some support on the downside.

Circle, circle, circle. I guess you could say I've been dizzy ever since.

His big thing was his equilibrium. He has dizzy spells. We're not going to rush him to anything and we're going to do exactly what the doctors tell us to do. We just have to be real smart with this.

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.

Hey, I've got a guy, ... I know I'm at the budget, but I've got a guy who will fit into the two hole and play second base and it will really round out the club. And, oh, by the way, I haven't seen this guy play live. But I've got a bunch of video. I'm dizzy from breaking it down over the past two weeks.

It was a great feeling (to sit out) because I didn't feel good at all, ... I was telling Coach when I was getting ready to go back in that I wasn't feeling that well and he just told me to come back, and fortunately everything worked out fine. I just didn't feel good. I was dizzy out there the whole game. Once I stopped playing at halftime and came back in, I just never felt right. I think I'm coming down with something.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

He put his collar down then we saw there was blood all over. He was still driving and said he was getting dizzy but somehow, he made it all the way to the fire station.

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Before Clary could respond, Jace’s eyes slid open. He looked up at the warlock, dazzled and dizzy. “What are you doing here?” Magnus grinned down at Jace, and his teeth sparkled like sharpened diamonds. “Hey roommate,” he said. -pg. 128-

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.