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 play eight
I can play all I know in eight bars.
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.
play trying band
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.
play lines progression
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.
music play
Don't be afraid, just play the music.
music play bullshit
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
jazz instruments
You've got to learn your instrument.
clean notes
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
beautiful people firsts
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
music art men
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.
music play saxophone
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
music faith practice
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.