{"id":6519,"date":"2015-03-13T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:33:41","slug":"compatible-quotes-charlie-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/03\/compatible-quotes-charlie-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: Charlie Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/em>
\n\"Charlie<\/a>
\nYou’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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can’t even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. … You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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