Thelonious Monk Quotes - Page 2

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• If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Bops, Jazz

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• The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

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  Piano, Notes, Pianist

  "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". p. 444. Book by Robin Kelley, 2009.

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• I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

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  Jazz, Clock, Knows

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• Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

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  Eccentric, Way

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• I played the wrong wrong notes.

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  Notes

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• I made the wrong mistakes

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  Mistake, Jazz, Made

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• The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

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  Bridges, Sound, Tunes

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• I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

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  Music, Anything Goes, Jazz

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• The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

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  Musician, Majority, Juice

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• I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

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  New York, Born

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• I always believed in being myself.

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  Being Myself, Always Believe

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• We have two kids, my wife and myself.

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  Kids, Two, Wife

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• I find my inspiration in myself.

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  Music, Inspiration, Jazz

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• Jazz is my adventure.

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  Adventure, Jazz

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• Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

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  Jazz, Miles, Ifs

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• I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

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  Music, Pieces, Jazz

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

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  Party, House, Prohibition

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• I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

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  Stupid, Counting, Collecting

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• I never though much about race.

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  Race

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• All musicians are potential band leaders.

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  Leader, Musician, Band

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• Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

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  Way, Bops, Deliberate

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• Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

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  Country, Play, Trying

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• Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

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  Music, Cat, Men

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• I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

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  Games, Play, Ping Pong

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