Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

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Topic

Music Creative expression

Speaker

Charlie Parker

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Jazz musician Musician

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Topic
Dead people
Speaker
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Author

Eugene Ionesco
Source
Rhinoceros
Medium
Play
Language
French
Time
1959 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Another quote about Music

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Topic
Artistic expression Music

Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1777 1770s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart. 8 Nov. 1777.

Current Citation

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.