Charlie Parker Quotes

"If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn."
- Charlie Parker

"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."
- Charlie Parker
(Related: Art, Music, Experience, Wisdom, Thoughts, Man)

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
- Charlie Parker
(Related: Art, Music, Man)

"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
(Related: Forget, Practice, Wail)

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
- Charlie Parker
(Related: Play)