Showing posts with label Charlie Parker Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlie Parker Quotes. Show all posts
Charlie Parker Quotes
"I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much." - Charlie Parker (to Jean-Paul Sartre)
Charlie Parker Quotes
"When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful." - Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker Quotes
"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." - Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker Quotes
"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
Charlie Parker Quotes
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker Quotes
"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
