Charlie Parker Quotes

I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.

Charlie Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler

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I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Andre Holland

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I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

Meghan Daum

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Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

Simon Sinek

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Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

Mary Pilon

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With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

Jason Blum

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All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

Donald Evans

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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

Connie Britton

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If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.

Rick Nielsen

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Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

Nicolas Roeg

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The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.

Ryan Zinke

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

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