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Charlie Parker

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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.
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As quoted in Bird : The Legend Of Charlie Parker (1977) by Robert George Reisner, p. 27

 
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