Bebop is a music of revolt: a revolt against big bands, arrangers, vertical harmonies, soggy rhythms, non-playing orchestra leaders, Tin Pan Alleyagainst commercialized music in general. critic Ross Russell, 1948Bebop players like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, and talk about their interesting new sounds, while their rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace and content as their music."How Deaf Can You Get?" Time (May 17, 1948)How to use notes differently. Thats it. Just how to use notes differently.bebop pianist Thelonius Monk, c. 1965What bebop amounts to: hot jazz overheated with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics and doubletalk.Time, 1946This is the sort of bad taste and ill-advised fanaticism that has thrown innumerable impressionable young musicians out of stride.Review of Charlie Parker, Downbeat (April 22, 1946)[Bebop musicians] want to carve everyone else because theyre full of malice, and all they want to do is show you up, and any old way will do as long as its different from the way you played it before. So you get all them weird chords which dont mean nothing, and first people get curious about it just because its new, but soon they get tired of it because its really no good and you got no melody to remember and no beat to dance to. So theyre all poor again and nobody is working, and thats what that modern malice done for you.Louis Armstrong, 1948I dont want you playing that Chinese music in my band!Cab Calloway, c. 1955Everytime a cop hits a Negro with his Billy club, that old club says, BOP! BOP!BE-BOP!MOP!BOP!Thats what Bop is. Them young colored kids who started it, they know what bop is.Langston Hughes, 1949We didnt go out and make speeches or say, Lets play eight bars of protest. We just played our music and let it go at that. The music proclaimed our identity; it make every statement we truly wanted to make.bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 1979