Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
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Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
