They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie ParkerRead
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.
Interpretation
Music is a personal expression that reflects individual experiences and thoughts, free from any limitations.
This quote by Charlie Parker emphasizes the deep connection between personal experience and artistic expression, particularly in music. Parker suggests that true music emerges from one's life experiences and wisdom, and if a person does not embody their own feelings and experiences in their music, the essence of that music will be lost. He challenges the notion of boundaries in art, asserting that creativity should be limitless and deeply rooted in the individual's journey.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing creative passions.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
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.
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
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