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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?

~Charlie Parker

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I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.

~Charlie Parker

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I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

~Charlie Parker

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Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like, schooling brings out the polish of any talent. It happens anywhere in the world.

~Charlie Parker

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 29th, 1920

Died: March 12th, 1955

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