"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you." — Charlie Parker
"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
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Charlie Parker
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20 Quotes by Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker has 20 quotes on this site.
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Learn the changes, then forget them.
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Bop is no love-child of jazz.
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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham!…
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I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that…
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written…
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When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something…
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Man, there's no boundary line to art!
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of…
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You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on…
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I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression,…
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If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
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More Jazz Quotes
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one of 1,344 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
— Louis Armstrong
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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You blows who you is.
— Louis Armstrong
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
— Louis Armstrong
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
— Lester Bangs
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
— Travis Barker
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
— Travis Barker
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I…
— Steven Adler
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