[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone…

I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone…

— Jon Gordon

I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich…

— Jon Gordon

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously,…

— Jon Gordon

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those…

— John Lewis

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was…

— Geoff Dyer

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was…

— Chick Corea

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off…

— Tom Waits

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first…

— Ted King

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also a lot…

— Arlo Parks

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern…

— Trevor St. John

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking…

— Jack Kerouac

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk.…

— Steve Lacy

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band,…

— Ray Brown

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton