Charlie Parker Quotes

25 Charlie Parker quotes by 25 unique authors

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats — Charles Mingus
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it. — Dizzy Gillespie
He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well,… — B B King
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy… — Frank B. Wilderson III
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
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… — Helen Merrill
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
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… — Charlie Parker
I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close… — Unknown Author
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never… — Branford Marsalis
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. — Charlie Watts
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. I'm doing a… — Jaco Pastorius
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass
Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. — Sonny Rollins
I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us… — Max Roach
My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced… — Judd Apatow
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz.… — Kenny G
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big… — Quincy Jones
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of… — Henry Rollins
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. — Sebastian Coe
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. — Damien Chazelle
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker… — Billy Eckstine

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