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The majority of juice-heads a...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I find my inspiration in myse...

I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I say, play your own way. Don...

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I don't consider myself a mus...

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

When I was a kid, some of the...

When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I don't know where jazz is go...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

The only cats worth anything ...

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

Anybody talented in any way -...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I always believed in being my...

I always believed in being myself.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

At this time the fashion is t...

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

Jazz is my adventure. I'm aft...

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

It can't be any new note. Whe...

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!

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

The loudest noise in the worl...

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

Be-bop wasn't developed in an...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I guess, you know, if I didn'...

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I can shoot pool, and I can p...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

If you really understand the ...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

Whatever you think can’t be d...

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

Everyone is influenced by eve...

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

I was playing birthday partie...

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

Thelonious Monk 58 quotes

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