Born Quote by Charlie Parker

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

— Charlie Parker

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher…

— Charlie Parker

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

— Johnny Rivers

As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned…

— Scott Storch

I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

— Trombone Shorty

I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found…

— Charlie Parker

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside…

— Joni Mitchell

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

— Allen Toussaint

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

— Ray Charles

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

— Dave Davies

From the beginning, I was able to learn a song by just hearing it, it is something that I've been blessed with.

— KK

I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

— Natalie Prass