Charlie Parker Quotes
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It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
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I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
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Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'
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Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
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Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.