List of Charlie Parker Quotes

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Charlie Parker
Total Quotes 24
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 guy who talks funny talk!'
Guy Comedian Bops
You've got to learn your instrument.
Jazz Instruments
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? i could hear it sometimes, but i couldn't play it.
Music Thinking Play
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
Children Bops Jazz
I'm very glad to have met you. i like your playing very much.
Music I Like You Jazz
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. i found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes i could play the thing i'd been hearing. i came alive.
Play Bored Lines
When i first heard music, i thought it should be very clean, very precise. something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
Beautiful People Firsts
It's just music. it's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
Clean Notes
I look at melody as rhythm.
Looks Rhythm Look At Me
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 have never played anything but swing music.
Swings Likes Use
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, i could play what i heard inside me. that's when i was born.
Play Lines Progression
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. but, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Music Art Men
  • Born: August 29, 1920
  • Died: March 12, 1955
  • Occupation: Saxophonist
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