Carolina Quotes
When you know that your music is founded on fundamental principles, you don't give a damn what other men say. You know it's the truth if it's fundamentally correct. It's got to be truth.
Dizzy Gillespie Carolinian
Source
Interview with Les Tomkins, Ronnie Scott's, London, 1973; published in Crescendo, September and October 1973
- form
- interview
- work
- Interview with Les Tomkins
- year
- 1973
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