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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...… — Eric Clapton
- He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Randy Weston
- Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac
- I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still… — Mose Allison
- The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with… — Steve Lacy
- I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.… — Chick Corea
- I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. — Unknown Author
- The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green