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Charlie Parker Quotes

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Charlie Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955

Topics

Practice Learn You Forget Up Get

'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

Joe R. Lansdale

Story Strong First Out Film Going

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

Anders Holm

Power Path Writing Bad Back I Can

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Merry Clayton

King Company Everything Within Stuff

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

Ana Ortiz

Mom Lucky Really Pal Gal

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

Story Musgrave

Go Never Let Go Long-Term Telescope

I really love that: bringing people together and feeling the love.

Romy Madley Croft

Love Together People Feeling Really

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Mike Rounds

Marriage Woman Man Done Protect

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Marriage Mother Son War World Her

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

Moby

Work Hide Possible Try Open Almost

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Louise Slaughter

Wife Words Name Now Want Clearly

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

Josh Homme

Music Fake Famous You Fame Okay

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Chuck D

Knowledge Yourself World Think You