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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

Source: Interview in Stockholm, Aug 1970; in Notes and Tones, by Arthur Taylor, 1977.
-- Dizzy Gillespie, (Oct 21 1917-1993), US jazz trumpeter, musician, composer, bandleader; His 1948 concert in Paris established the popularity of jazz in Europe; founder of the modern jazz style known as bebop.

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