Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.Charlie Parker
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton -
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Mister Cee's a legend, man.
Fat Joe -
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 -
It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
Bebe Rexha
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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 -
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci -
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
Salma Hayek -
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Larry Ellison -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali -
When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
Fidel Castro -
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
Hans Kung -
There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
Imelda May -
I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
Karan Singh Grover -
I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.
Felicia Day
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For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.
Ellen Meloy -
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman -
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
John Goodman -
I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.
Anna Popplewell -
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
Andrew Weil -
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
Charlie Parker