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Music Quotes by Thelonious Monk
- Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
- A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
- Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.
- Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.
- I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
- 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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