Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.
You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.
Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.
I’ve sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you’re writing it’s very difficult to decide what to reveal.
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
I dont do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldnt care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
Now I’m a warrior.
Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.
The NRA have great power over you people. They have less power over me. I don’t need it. What do I need? But I’ll tell you, they are well-meaning
I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy and Bird.
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
They said eyes are the key to the soul, and after looking into yours, I know youve unlocked mine.
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.
Truth isn’t truth.
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.
