Parker Quotes

111 quotes by 90 authors

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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I never really sympathised with Peter Parker. — Jamie Bell
Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was… — Minnie Pearl
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats — Charles Mingus
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
Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world heâ€™s a good guy: â€˜ Like me, Iâ€™m nice.â€™ Heâ€™s a 19 year-old… — Andrew Garfield
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. — George Eads
He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well,… — B B King
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions just… — Kerry Condon
The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's… — Terry Teachout
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about… — Kaya Scodelario
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy… — Frank B. Wilderson III
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. — Brian Setzer
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's… — Helen Merrill
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes

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