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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Bop is no love-child of jazz.

Bop, Bops, Children, Jazz

You've got to learn your instrument.

Instrument, Instruments, Jazz, Learn

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

Clean, Music, Notes, Playing, Pretty

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.

Art, Live, Men, Music, Thoughts

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Art, Line, Man, Men, Music

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

Boundaries, Experience, Jazz And Life, Music, Thoughts, Wisdom

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

Humorous, Let, Motivational, Music, Play, Saxophone

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.

Care, Charlie, Don, Giovanni, Swings, Use

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Eight, Know, Music, Play

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

Glad, I Like You, Jazz, Like, Music, Playing

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

Bound, Hear, Kept, Music, Play, Thinking

Learn the changes, then forget them.

Changes, Forget, Learn

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.

Alive, Bored, Chord, Harmonies, Higher, Play

I look at melody as rhythm.

Look, Look At Me, Looks, Melody, Rhythm

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Beautiful, Clean, Firsts, Heard, People

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!'

Bop, Bops, Comedian, Guy, Talk

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

Art, Man, Men, Music