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Music Quotes by Charlie Parker
- 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…
- When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
- 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. They teach you…
- 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…
- Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
- Don't be afraid, just play the music.
- Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
- I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
- I can play all I know in eight bars.
- Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
- I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
- They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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