Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done… — Benny Carter Copy Share Image
I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of… — Ted Templeman Copy Share Image
As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. I don’t want to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance. He… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. — Milt Jackson Copy Share Image
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
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