Bop is no love-child of jazz.
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
You've got to learn your instrument.
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.