"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
"It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes."
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Source: Mark Voelpel, Charlie Parker (2001). “Charlie Parker for Guitar (Songbook): Note-for-Note Transcriptions and Detailed Performance Notes for 18 Bebop Classics”, p.10, Hal Leonard Corporation
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