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title: "1 Clocks Quotes By Thelonious Monk"
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> [I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-didn-t-know-there-were-2-ten-o-clocks-in-a-day/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

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## Other authors on Clocks

## More by Thelonious Monk

> [Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/everyone-is-influenced-by-everybody-but-you-bring-it-down-home-the/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/a-note-can-be-as-small-as-a-pin-or-as-big-as-the-world-it-depends-on/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/when-i-was-a-kid-some-of-the-guys-would-try-to-get-me-to-hate-white/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [Jazz is freedom. You think about that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/jazz-is-freedom-you-think-about-that/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/don-t-play-everything-or-every-time-let-some-things-go-by-what-you/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I made the wrong mistakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-made-the-wrong-mistakes/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-have-to-listen-to-new-york-i-live-there-i-wasn-t-born-there-but-i/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-was-playing-birthday-parties-house-rent-parties-where-they-used-to/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I always believed in being myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-always-believed-in-being-myself/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/all-musicians-are-subconsciously-mathematicians/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [ Man, that cat \[Ornette Coleman\] is nuts. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/man-that-cat-ornette-coleman-is-nuts/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-didn-t-know-there-were-2-ten-o-clocks-in-a-day/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-guess-you-know-if-i-didn-t-make-it-with-the-piano-i-guess-i-would/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [Jazz is my adventure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/jazz-is-my-adventure/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

> [Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/trying-to-explain-music-is-like-trying-to-dance-architecture/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

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