Charlie Parker Quotes
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Charlie Parker Quotes & Sayings
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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
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 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
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
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
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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
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
