Charlie Parker Quotes

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, Experience

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

Play, Saxophone

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

Forget, Learn, Practice

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

Music, Art, Line

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

Live, Won, Horn

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

Play, High, Born

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 29, 1920

Died: March 12, 1955

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