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Charles Parker Jr. foi um saxofonista americano de jazz e compositor. No início da sua carreira, Parker foi apelidado de Yardbird; esse apelido mais tarde foi encurtado para Bird e permaneceu como o apelido de Parker para o resto da sua vida. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Agosto 1920 – 12. Março 1955
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Charlie Parker: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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As quoted in Bird : The Legend Of Charlie Parker (1977) by Robert George Reisner, p. 27

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

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As quoted in Words of Wisdom (1990) edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435

“l'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time at the time, and I kept thinking there's bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes but I couldn't play it. … 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.”

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On his personal stylistic breakthrough, quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955) edited by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, . p 354

“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.”

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As quoted in Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business (2006) by Jason Pugatch, p. 73; this statement has occurred with many different phrasings, including: "Learn the changes, then forget them."

“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. … You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”

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As quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It (1955) edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379

“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.”

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c. 1939 quoted in Masters of Jazz