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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

    Bop is no love-child of jazz.

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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    I can play all I know in eight bars.

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    Charlie Parker

    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.

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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

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    Charlie Parker

    I look at melody as rhythm.

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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

    Man, there's no boundary line to art!

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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

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

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    Charlie Parker

    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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    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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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

    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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    Charlie Parker

    Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

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    Charlie Parker

    First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.