Thelonious Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to…
— Eric Clapton
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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit…
— Matthew Shipp
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting…
— Geoff Dyer
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There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel…
— Roy Haynes
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Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of…
— John Lewis
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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
— Matthew Shipp
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At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I…
— Randy Weston
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
— Jack Kerouac
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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my…
— Mose Allison
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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It…
— Steve Lacy
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a…
— Chick Corea
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I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
— Ted King
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from…
— Benny Green
Who Wrote These Thelonious Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Thelonious Quotes as follows: