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Charlie Parker Quotes
Charlie Parker
American
Musician
Born:
Aug 29
,
1920
Died:
Mar 12
,
1955
Good
Horn
Music
People
Time
You
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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.
Charlie Parker
You
Practice
Finally
Instrument
Learn
Got
Wail
Up
Bandstand
Forget
Get
Just
Then
Your
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker
You
Saxophone
Play
Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
Charlie Parker
Life
Music
People
Walks
Harmony
Ways
Melody
Kinds
More
Very
Than
Rhythm
Much
Descriptive
Basically
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
Charlie Parker
You
Mother
Once
Bit
Neighbors
Threatened
Horn
Fact
Put
True
Study
Know
Quite
Quite A Bit
Move
In Fact
Ask
One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.
Charlie Parker
Time
Home
Soul
Three
Club
Everybody
Cried
Teens
Months
Out
Laughing
One Time
Tried
City
Tempo
Fell
Until
Doing
Want
Jamming
Again
Double
Kansas
Kansas City
Body
Play
Right
Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like, schooling brings out the polish of any talent. It happens anywhere in the world.
Charlie Parker
Good
You
World
Somebody
Shine
Shoes
Definitely
Out
Good Pair
Born
Absolutely
Put
Study
Talent
Like
Know
Schooling
Polish
Within
Any
Just
Happens
Anywhere
Forms
Pair
Necessary
Brings
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
Beautiful
Music
You
People
Thought
Possible
Something
More
More Or Less
Clean
Could
Since
Know
Understand
Heard
Very
Precise
Tuned
Anyway
Should
Less
Ever
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