Quotes by Charlie Parker

• 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.
• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
• 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.
• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
• 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.
• Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
• Dream big, act small, and always carry a rubber chicken in case life gets too serious!
• Success is a juggling act: when you think you’re balancing everything, applause may only mean you forgot to catch one!
• Success is just failure understood with a sense of humor.
• Life is like a platypus—odd and frequently underestimated, yet entirely magnificent if you dare to dive deeper.