Charlie Parker Quotes About Jazz

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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

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

• 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

  Music, Faith, Practice

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

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

  Charlie Parker

  Motivational, Music, Humorous

  "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

• Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Jazz

• Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Bullshit

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

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

• 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

  Beautiful, People, Firsts

• I can play all I know in eight bars.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Eight, Play

• 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.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Bored, Lines

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 354, 1955.

• Man, there's no boundary line to art!

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Trying, Band

• I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, I Like You, Jazz

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

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Thinking, Play

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 354, 1955.

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

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

• You've got to learn your instrument.

  Charlie Parker

  Jazz, Instruments

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

• Bop is no love-child of jazz.

  Charlie Parker

  Children, Bops, Jazz

• 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!'

  Charlie Parker

  Guy, Comedian, Bops

• 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.

  Charlie Parker

  Swings, Likes, Use

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