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
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that. — Carlos Santana 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
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles… — Flea 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
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
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,… — Charlie Parker 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
There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between… — Dizzy Gillespie 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
My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington,… — Judd Apatow 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
[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] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon 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 listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell 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
“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
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
“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
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot… — Benny Carter Copy Share Image
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them… — Nipsey Hussle 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
When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... "Did you eat today?" And if you hadn't eaten,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
![“You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.” quote by Dizzy Gillespie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/626/dizzy-gillespie-18297_bird_you-can-t-steal-a-gift-bird-charlie-park_2034669.jpg)
![“I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.” quote by Ray Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ea/ray-brown-34220_bud_i-went-up-to-his-hank-jones-house-and-th_584035.jpg)
![“People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so…” quote by Helen Merrill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/478/helen-merrill-83326_accompany_people-with-talent-are-not-interested-in_437342.jpg)
![“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the…” quote by Judd Apatow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/48c/judd-apatow-1471_albums_my-grandfather-was-bob-shad-one-of-those_2359346.jpg)
![“[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1a/jon-gordon-1655_asks_charlie-bird-parker-would-sit-down-and-a_1110923.jpg)
![“[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too. Like he was into cooking. He was just into a lot of things. Yeah, it's about dealing with bebop and jazz and Trane [John Coltrain] and post-Trane and knowing the history. But…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a35/jon-gordon-1655_art_charlie-parker-was-kind-of-a-sponge-and_2500883.jpg)
![“When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... "Did you eat today?" And if you hadn't eaten, he'd take you and buy you some lunch.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb1/jon-gordon-1655_charlie_when-charlie-parker-saw-the-young-guys-e_1498226.jpg)
