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Love Quotes by Thelonious Monk
- The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
- 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.
- There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.
- Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
- A genius is the one most like himself.
- I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
- 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.
- 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.
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