Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Charlie Parker
- Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
- Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors – the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
- 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.
- What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
- They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
- Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
- Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
- Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man’s God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
- Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
Charlie Parker, born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Missouri, was a legendary American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is best known for his pioneering role in the development of bebop, a revolutionary subgenre of jazz that emerged in the 1940s.
Parker’s virtuosity on the alto saxophone and his innovative approach to improvisation set him apart. He performed and recorded with jazz luminaries like Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach, and his contributions to the genre have left an indelible mark.
Parker’s career was marked by both musical brilliance and personal struggles. His battles with addiction and a tumultuous personal life often overshadowed his artistic achievements. Nevertheless, his recordings, such as “Now’s the Time” and “Ornithology,” remain iconic in the world of jazz.
Tragically, Charlie Parker’s life was cut short when he died at the age of 34 on March 12, 1955. Despite his brief life, he left an enduring legacy as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of jazz, earning him the nickname “Bird” and cementing his place in the pantheon of musical legends.
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