#charlie

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#create #fine #i #i do #improvise

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. ↗

— Nathan Lane

#british #charlie #doing #fan #folk

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#began #big #big band #charlie #christian

The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk of rehabilitation, of cure, of someday sending these people out into the world again. No one had spoken of hope. The feeling was of living death-or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #death

I would die for you, but I won’t live for you. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #life #quotes #quotes-that-makes-sense #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#smile #life

Wait", I say. "That's-you-what?" "That's what I love about working with you, Valchek. Your eloquence." "But -but- but-" "And your motorboat impressions." "Charlie, if you were there, why didn't you arrest him? ↗

— D.D. Barant

#jace-valchek #love

I pledge to keep you safe. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#loyalty #max #promise #loyalty

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#charlie #children #daddy #enough #films

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#america #annie #anything #before #chaplin