Charlie Quotes - Page 13

• Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Creativity, Band, Performances

  Dizzy Gillespie (2009). “To Be, Or Not-- to Bop”, p.367, U of Minnesota Press

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• There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

  Daniel Keyes

  Doors, Impatient

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• I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Blessed, Wife, Alcohol

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• I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to...I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

  Alison Pill

  Teacher, New York, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I watch news from the minute I wake up till 11. Then I switch to Charlie Rose. Fox News all the way.

  Brigid Berlin

  Rose, Watches, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

  Buster Keaton

  Friendly, Film, Subtitles

  Interview with Studs Terkel, 1960.

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• If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

  Charles Mingus

  Copycats, Gunslinger, Whole

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• When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Writing

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• My friends are trying to get me to go out on blind dates. Big 'NO' to that because all my friends are a bunch of lying geeks. They're always like, 'Brian, you're really gonna dig this girl. She's got Traci Lords' eyes, Michelle Pfeiffer's nose, Kim Basinger's lips.' Yeah, they always forget to tell me she's also got Charlie Brown's head.

  Brian Posehn

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Bird, World, Stealing

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• Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

  Matthew Lillard

  Crush, Hot, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Ears, Tvs

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• In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

  Benny Carter

  Honesty, Thinking, Play

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• I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

  Branford Marsalis

  Swings, Use, Care

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• Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit

  Charlie Sheen

  Soul, Causes, Forfeit

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• Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

  Daniel Keyes

  Music, Book, Thinking

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• There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Religious, Media, Expression

  "How to Respond to Islamist Kalashnikovs in the Heart of Paris" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

  Woody Allen

  Fields, Six, Genius

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• Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mermaid, Magic, Gold

  Shel Silverstein, “Magic”

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• Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Mean, Roots

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• Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

  Sam Mendes

  Kings, Commitment, Years

  "Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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• Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

  Simon Schama

  Father, Tyrants, Charlie Hebdo

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• What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus..." "I have often thought the same thing." "Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Brother, Nice, Thinking

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