Thelonious Monk Quotes
- The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
- 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…
- The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.
- Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
- Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
- All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
- The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.
- I always believed in being myself.
- We have two kids, my wife and myself.
- I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
- Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
- Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
- I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
- I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.
- I never though much about race.
- I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
- 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…