All Charlie Parker Quotes
- Learn the changes, then forget them. Changes
- Bop is no love-child of jazz. Bops
- Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks… Bops
- I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals… Alive
- 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 would… Buys
- When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful. Beautiful
- Man, there's no boundary line to art! Art
- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. Experience
- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you… Art
- You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that… All
- Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. Jazz
- I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I… Born
- If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. Art
- Don't be afraid, just play the music. Afraid
- Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. All
- I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much. Glad
- I can play all I know in eight bars. All
- Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born. Born
- I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. Bound
- They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. Art