Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.
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There are a lot of things that you see in the world ...We have a collection of gloves that have been run over by trucks that a friend named JP Williams collects. They are really beautiful. They look like sculpture. And he has a hundred pictures of them - we're making a book out of them. It's all that kind of ephemera, things that exist that no one really looks at unless it's put to them in a certain way.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
