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.

Charlie Parker

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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.

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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all tha... by Charlie Parker

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

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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.

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

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

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Don't be afraid, just play the music. by Charlie Parker

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

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Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born. by Charlie Parker

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

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Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there'... by Charlie Parker

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

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I can play all I know in eight bars. by Charlie Parker

I can play all I know in eight bars.

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Man, there's no boundary line to art! by Charlie Parker

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. by Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

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When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

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Bop is no love-child of jazz. by Charlie Parker

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

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I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much. by Charlie Parker

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

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It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty no... by Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

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