Charlie Parker Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Charlie Parker:

You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
~Charlie Parker


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They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
~Charlie Parker


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Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
~Charlie Parker


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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.
~Charlie Parker


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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 your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
~Charlie Parker


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If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.
~Charlie Parker


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