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Notes Quotes by Thelonious Monk
- The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
- 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…
- There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.
- Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using…
- A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
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