"Once I could play what I heard inside……" — Charlie Parker
"Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born."
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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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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
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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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