Bird Is the Word: Quotes By and About Charlie Parker


“I can play all I know in eight bars.” —Charlie Parker   “You could look at Bird’s life and see just how much his music was connected to the way he lived. … You just stood there with your mouth open and listened to him discuss books with somebody or philosophy or religion or science,...

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