Charlie Parker Quotes

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

Charlie Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeTimeSoulCityDoingBody

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Amy Landecker

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I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.

Robbie Robertson

SomeoneNeverUpStarGetStudio

The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've been in or shows I've been in as they say, instead, 'I love you. I just love your perseverance.' That really pleases me.

Rita Moreno

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My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

Russell Peters

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'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.

Michaela Coel

LifeDreamsGirlYouLookBus

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

Mick Foley

LovedYoungerSteveSteve Martin

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

Winston Marshall

LifeGreatPeopleYouPersonKind

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

GoodTruthBelievePersonTrueFar

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Phil Ochs

BeautyUglyTrueProtestOnlyTimes

My wife does wish I dressed better.

Sean Hannity

WifeBetterWishDressedDoes

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Thomas Mallon

GoodSympathyFeelYouLateSee

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

Tim Buckley

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