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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-03-20:

"You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can hear it, you can have it." -- Dizzy Gillespie, consoling fellow musician Phil Woods after Woods had been criticized for "stealing" the music of Charlie "Bird" Parker. Cited in "You Can't Steal A Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, And Nat" by Gene Lees, Yale University Press (2001).

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-03-20:

"You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can hear it, you can have it." -- Dizzy Gillespie, consoling fellow musician Phil Woods after Woods had been criticized for "stealing" the music of Charlie "Bird" Parker. Cited in "You Can't Steal A Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, And Nat" by Gene Lees, Yale University Press (2001).

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)