Errors Quote by 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…

— Roy Haynes

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…

— Randy Weston

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band,…

— Ray Brown

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my…

— Mimi Rogers

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

— Carlos Santana

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

— Steve Lacy

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out…

— Marcel Proust

“It was a music that had so little wisdom you wanted to clean nearly every note he passed, passed it seemed along the way…

— Michael Ondaatje

“In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he’d written became known as neumes.”

— Louise Penny

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

— David Benioff

“A piano tuner used to come over to our house when I was young. He was a blind man, his eyes burnt-out holes in…

— Lauren Slater