Charlie Parker Quotations

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

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

You've got to learn your instrument.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Learn the changes, then forget them.

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

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

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