Charlie Parker Quotes in Bird (1988)

Chan Parker: Dizzy sent you a birthday card. Seems he's back in town. Do you owe him a phone call?

Charlie Parker: I owe Dizzy everything...except a phone call.

Charlie Parker: Ain't it a bitch? I go to a liver doctor and I pay him $50. And it don't help me. I go to an ulcer doctor. Same thing, except I pay him $75. But I go to some little cat up in a house somewhere and pay him $10 for a bag of shit and a little peace. My ulcers don't hurt, liver don't hurt. My heart trouble is gone. And this is the man I'm supposed to stay away from? Mr. Gillespie, my comrade in arms, that is what I call a paradox.