Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

Charlie Parker

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• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Morality

• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Save

• I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Emotion
  • Performance
  • Impact

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Walking

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• He who gives love, receives love.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Purpose

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Like

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

  

  Rick Astley
  • True
  • Movie
  • Woman

• Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Life
  • Music

• I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Men
  • Why
  • Hate

• The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • God
  • Real
  • Technology

• I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Character

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why