"Whenever a song is born and wherever it is sung, it belongs to everyone. That, really, is the reason why music exists: so that it cannot be fenced in by frontiers." — Yiannis Parios, Greek singer, born 1946
"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born." — Charlie Parker, American saxophonist, born 1920
"If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn." — Charlie Parker, American saxophonist, born 1920
"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience." — Dorothy Parker, American poet, born 1893
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician." — Dorothy Parker, American poet, born 1893
"If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you." — Dorothy Parker, American poet, born 1893
"After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breathe and reboot." — Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress, born 1965
"Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness." — Gordon Parks, American photographer, born 1912
"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera." — Gordon Parks, American photographer, born 1912
"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colors. Only a prism can divide the colors and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener." — Arvo Part, Estonian composer, born 1935
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." — Dolly Parton, American singer, born 1946
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — Blaise Pascal, French physicist, born 1623
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God." — Blaise Pascal, French physicist, born 1623