Charlie Parker Music Quotations

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

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

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.

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

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

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

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

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

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.

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.

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