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 i-like-you mets
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
music play eight
I can play all I know in eight bars.
music art men
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
jazz instruments
You've got to learn your instrument.
looks rhythm look-at-me
I look at melody as rhythm.
music thinking play
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
music jazz-and-life boundaries
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
clean notes
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
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.
music art men
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
guy comedian bops
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!'
play bored alive
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.
music play born
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.