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Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that ... — Carlos Santana

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing ... I just liked the way he played. — Charlie Watts

You've got to learn your instrument. — Charlie Parker

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. — Milt Jackson

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity. — Dizzy Gillespie

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. — Charlie Parker

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you. — Charlie Parker

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. — Charlie Parker

Bop is no love-child of jazz. — Charlie Parker

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out. — Eric Andre

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano

The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker. — Steve Erickson

Man, there's no boundary line to art! — Charlie Parker

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid. — Trey Parker

I can play all I know in eight bars. — Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes. — Charlie Parker

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play. — Charlie Parker

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. — Charlie Parker

Hear with your eyes, see with your ears — Charlie Parker

Learn the changes, then forget them. — Charlie Parker

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful. — Charlie Parker

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me. — Dizzy Gillespie

Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose. — Charlie Huston

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker

Don't be afraid, just play the music. — Charlie Parker

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. — Damien Chazelle

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. — Joni Mitchell

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it. — Dizzy Gillespie

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much. — Charlie Parker

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. — Sonny Rollins

I look at melody as rhythm. — Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. — Sebastian Coe

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats — Charles Mingus