Author Profile
Charlie Parker
1920 – 1955 • American • Musician
15
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 15 quotesI could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.— Charlie Parker
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?— Charlie Parker
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.— Charlie Parker
I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.— Charlie Parker