Thelonious Monk Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. — Ted King
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

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