Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes

I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.

Charlie Parker

Bored

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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

Iris Apfel
- Me
- Look
- Everything
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Baltasar Gracian
- Time
- Business
- Better
Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

M. J. Rose
- Up
- Help
- House
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

Damon Albarn Blur
- Up
- Different
- Business
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

Larry Bird
- Feeling
- Running
- Far
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

T. Boone Pickens
- Mistake
- Try
- Blame