Charlie Parker
Musician
1920-08-29 – 1955-03-12
Charlie Parker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer who helped pioneer bebop. His harmonic innovations and improvisational style profoundly influenced modern jazz.
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Quotes by Charlie Parker
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First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.
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Don't be afraid, just play the music.
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Don't be afraid, just play the music.
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First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.
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One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.
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If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
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I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
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Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
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First you master your instrument, then you master the music, then you forget all that shit and just play.
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