Chico Quotes & Sayings

For the last five years I've been in the production business. — Chico Hamilton

If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt. — Chico Xavier

The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values. — Chico Xavier

Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path. — Chico Xavier

Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day ... Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets ... our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil. — Deb Caletti

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for. — Chico Xavier

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ... — Chico Xavier

Bench me or trade me. — Chico Ruiz

Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced. — Chico Xavier

Most people know my music but will never read my books. — Chico Buarque

It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With exception, men have been squandering servants th at at the moment of adjustment did not appear to be worthy of the benefits received. — Chico Xavier

I moved along ancient streets, enchanted by names that sounded like songs: Rua da Agonia, Avenida dos Amores, Travessa de Chico Diabo. Our visit to Salvador took place during a period when the local government, or someone acting in its name, was trying to renew the old city, and was closing down the thousands of brothels. But the project was only at midpoint. At the feet of those deserted and leprous churches embarrassed by their own evil-smelling alleys, fifteen-year-old black prostitutes still swarmed, ancient women selling African sweets crouched along the sidewalks with their steaming pots, and hordes of pimps danced amid trickles of sewage to the sound of transistor radios in nearby bars. The ancient palaces of the Portuguese settlers, surmounted by coats of arms now illegible, had become houses of ill-repute. — Umberto Eco

Name the eight men who made the final out in games that sent the Mets to the playoffs. Joe Torre, September 24, 1969. Glenn Beckert, October 1, 1973. Chico Walker, September 17, 1986. Lance Parrish, September 22, 1988. Dmitri Young, October 4, 1999. Keith Lockhart, September 27, 2000. Josh Willingham, September 18, 2006. Jay Bruce, September 26, 2015. — Greg W. Prince

Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them. — Chico Xavier

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players. — Chico Hamilton

No wonder Brandon won't shut up about you." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. — Chico Hamilton

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. — Chico Marx

If he's not, there's gonna be a real fight when Brandon finds out. — Bella Jeanisse

You guys keep her kid occupied while we get it on upstairs. — Bella Jeanisse

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry. — Chico Hamilton

Mustard's no good without roast beef. — Chico Marx

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity — Chico Mendes

Honey, I'm home! — Bella Jeanisse

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others. — Chico Xavier

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art. — Chico Buarque

Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter. — J.A. Konrath

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. — Chico Hamilton

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument. — Gabor Szabo

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals. — Chico Hamilton

He thinks every girl wants him. — Bella Jeanisse

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is. — Chico Buarque

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier

For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there. — Alex Honnold

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said. — Maureen Daly

You're getting laid way too much this trip." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

There is a certain pride in work and in your body throbbing beyond any boundaries you imagined you could endure. You identify with those who come home with pieces of pork fat wedged into their boots, with gashes on their arms and legs from their tools and machines, and with black grime etched into the folds of their dark skin.
Too often this country has turned its back on the working class and the working poor, not to mention the undocumented workers who harvest the food for American tables and build our houses. — Sergio Troncoso

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse. — Chico Xavier

You're getting too big for this... ugh, my aching back. — Bella Jeanisse

Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve. — Chico Xavier

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. — Chico Hamilton

Dude, you just got fucked up by a girl." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess. — Chico Xavier

Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do. — Chico Xavier

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ... — Chico Xavier

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar"
Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change."
Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books. — Groucho Marx

I don't dig staying in one groove. — Chico Hamilton

They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks and made him do jumping jacks. You know, if it can't get you into a fraternity at Chico State University, it's not torture. — Christopher Titus

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning ... Anyone can start over and make a new ending. — Chico Xavier

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner. — Chico Xavier

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines. — Chico Hamilton

My name is Raphael. Not chico. — Cassandra Clare

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness. — Chico Xavier

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words. — Chico Buarque

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while. — Chico Buarque

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors. — Chico Xavier

If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice. — Chico Xavier

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on. — Chico Xavier

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people. — Chico Hamilton

If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say. — Chico Resch

Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the many lost hours. So while you still have time, seek to enrich your own spirits for the tomorrow which awaits you because, in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, it is of no use to retain the outward appearance of the splendor of all the empires of this world, if you maintain darkness within your heart. — Chico Xavier

According to that book, only one Marx contributed an unforgotten pun to the Round Tablers' vaunted word games. It wasn't Groucho, who must have been furious. Nor was it Harpo, who for all we know sat at the table naked. Nor was it Chico, who had more dangerous games elsewhere. It was Gummo. Evidently Gummo had a seat at that table at least once, and he made it count. Everybody knows that Dorothy Parker, challenged to make a sentence with the word horticulture, quipped as follows: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." But who knew that Gummo, taking on euphoria, came up with this: LEFT TO RIGHT: Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Gummo, 1957. "Go outside and play," Minnie told the brothers. "Which ones?" they asked. And she said: "Euphoria."* — Roy Blount Jr.

It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice. — Chico Xavier

She had always been a fast driver, even before she could afford a fast car. It was impatience as much as anything: chafing at the fact that she couldn't actually do anything while driving - except drive. — Chico Kidd

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay. — Chico Hamilton

Evil itself is a dictator, whether it's dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. That's what the devil is, you know. And it's precious difficult to combat. Or rather, it's not so much difficult, as demanding of great courage. Will, and wit. — Chico Kidd

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch

(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects — Chico Buarque

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word, — Chico Mendes

If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment. — Chico Xavier

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease. — Chico Resch

If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice. — Chico Xavier

Dat's a some joke, Hey Boss. — Chico Marx

Groucho Marx continued to alternately call Margaret Dumont "a great lady" and to denigrate her in interviews. But he seemed, at the end, to realize how important she'd been to his career. When accepting his 1974 Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the ailing Groucho told the audience, "I only wish Harpo and Chico could have been here - and Margaret Dumont. — Eve Golden

But what if you don't like Chico?" she asked him, her brow furrowed.
"Will you be there? Because if that's where you want to be, I'll find plenty to like. — Robyn Carr

It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation. — Chico Xavier

Girl, you're on a roll today with the emasculation. — Bella Jeanisse

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am. — Chico Hamilton

Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves. — Chico Xavier

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. — Chico Hamilton

Dude, you just got fucked up by a girl. — Bella Jeanisse

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them. — Chico Hamilton

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier. — Chico Buarque

You can't all molest her at the same time." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me ... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation. — Chico Xavier

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick. — Chico Flores

Still men be clever and in an hundred centuries or more, perchance will have found a way to journey thither; when that they have discovered and understood all things on the earth. What will a man be like in the xxvii century, or even the xx? Very like unto us, I do expect; I do not think that man's nature shall change; nor do I anticipate that he will be the wiser than we, for all his learning, for 'tis a part of that nature which is ours that we do not heed the lessons of history: neither our own, nor the world's. — Chico Kidd

We are not 'censored' in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a 'Like' button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners? — Sergio Troncoso

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it. — Chico Buarque

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it. — Chico Hamilton

He'll rock your world then toss you aside like you're yesterday's trash." Chico Rivera — Bella Jeanisse

Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. — Chico Xavier

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play. — Chico Hamilton

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had. — Chico Xavier

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect. — Chico Hamilton