List of Charlie Parker Quotes

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!'

You've Got To Learn Your Instrument.

I Kept Thinking There's Bound To Be Something Else? I Could Hear It Sometimes, But I Couldn't Play It.

Bop Is No Love-child Of Jazz.

I'm Very Glad To Have Met You. I Like Your Playing Very Much.

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.

When I First Heard Music, I Thought It Should Be Very Clean, Very Precise. Something That People Could Understand, Something That Was Beautiful.

It's Just Music. It's Playing Clean And Looking For The Pretty Notes.

I Look At Melody As Rhythm.

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.

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.

They Teach You There's A Boundary Line To Music. But, Man, There's No Boundary Line To Art.