A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza 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
I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni,… — Branford Marsalis 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
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
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
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of… — Clint Eastwood 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'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing,… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with… — Charles Simic 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
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
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
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to… — Kenny G 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
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and… — Quincy Jones 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
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
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