« All Giovanni Quotes
·
Charlie Parker's Page
Giovanni Quotes by Charlie Parker
1 Giovanni quote by Charlie Parker
More Quotes by Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Learn the changes, then forget them.
-
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
-
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…
-
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using…
-
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,…
-
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was…
-
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
-
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
-
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.…
-
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,…
-
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
-
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could…
See all 20 quotes by Charlie Parker »
More Giovanni Quotes
Popular Giovanni quotes from across the collection:
-
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
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
-
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
-
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
— Giorgio Moroder
-
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black…
— Jill Scott
-
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni…
— Jill Scott
-
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
-
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous…
— John Green
See all Giovanni Quotes »
Browse Charlie Parker Quotes by Category