Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr., also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth29 August 1920
CityKansas City, KS
CountryUnited States of America
music art men
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
music thinking play
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
liars years play
Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
forget
Learn the changes, then forget them.
clean notes
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
looks rhythm look-at-me
I look at melody as rhythm.
jazz instruments
You've got to learn your instrument.
music i-like-you mets
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
music play eight
I can play all I know in eight bars.
music jazz-and-life boundaries
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
music art men
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
addressing british culture people start terms themselves
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.
swings use care
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.