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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. — Charlie Parker

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If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya · 1955
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1955
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Charlie Parker
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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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