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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

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

~Charlie Parker

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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

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

~Charlie Parker

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

~Charlie Parker

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Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

~Charlie Parker

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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.

~Charlie Parker

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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.

~Charlie Parker

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Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

~Charlie Parker

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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.

~Charlie Parker

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 29th, 1920

Died: March 12th, 1955

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