Charlie Parker Quotes

Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?

Charlie Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicBeautifulPeopleThoughtYou

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

Jessie Matthews

MenMeMakeupFeelCameraLooks

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Jesse Ventura

WinYouLoseAlwaysCheatMust

'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

Menander

LifeTruthBestSecurityCrisis

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

Mel Torme

PlayOldFirstYearsBeginSinger

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

John Lydon

HurtArroganceComedyDoneNever

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

Mia Wasikowska

ComfortSuckerHuge

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

Simon Cowell

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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Truman Capote

GoodArtFunWritingBadDown

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

Rose George

LiveWaterPeopleWorldShortWill

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Robert T. Bakker

BirdsSmallLikeEvolved

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

Michelle Dockery

YouConnectionFindPlayRoleAny

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Cliff Martinez

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