More - Charlie Parker Quotes

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

 American Musician

Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar . . . You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

Charlie Parker

 

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

 American Musician Experience

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

Charlie Parker

 American Musician

We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themselves and their culture in terms of addressing the new age.

Charlie Parker

 British

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Charlie Parker

 American Musician

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

 American Musician

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

 American Musician Art

That's what we all wanted,

Charlie Parker

 

It was a bit of a switch-up, really,

Charlie Parker