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Inspirational Quotes by Thelonious Monk
- The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
- 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.
- I always believed in being myself.
- Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
- 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.
- There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.
- I made the wrong mistakes
- Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
- A genius is the one most like himself.
- Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
- I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
- The loudest noise in the world is silence.
- I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.
- 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.
- Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
- If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
- I find my inspiration in myself.
- After two takes you're imitating yourself.
- I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
- I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento