Thelonious Monk Quotes
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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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Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.
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The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.
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Jazz is my adventure.
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We have two kids, my wife and myself.
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Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
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A genius is the one most like himself.
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I played the wrong wrong notes.
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I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.
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The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
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It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.
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A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
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Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
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Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
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If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
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Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
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Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
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Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
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I always believed in being myself.
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I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
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Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
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I find my inspiration in myself.
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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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All musicians are potential band leaders.
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Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
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The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.
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I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.
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It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!
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Everyone is a genius at being themselves
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