Band Quote by Ray Brown
![“[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And…” quote by Ray Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7bc/ray-brown-34220_band_thelonious-monk-is-a-subject-in-itself-i_125504.jpg)
“[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!”
![“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 heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound…” quote by Randy Weston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/randy-weston-65027_ancient_at-first-i-didn-t-understand-what-thelon_2078052.jpg)
![“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 and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they…” quote by Roy Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ee/roy-haynes-43782_arrangements_there-was-a-lot-that-was-tricky-about-pl_1862413.jpg)
![“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 an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.” quote by Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fa/geoff-dyer-8822_errors_he-thelonious-monk-played-each-note-as-t_1184020.jpg)
![“I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.” quote by Ray Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ea/ray-brown-34220_bud_i-went-up-to-his-hank-jones-house-and-th_584035.jpg)
![“The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets'…” quote by Ray Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83c/ray-brown-34220_amazing-things_the-amazing-thing-about-sweets-edison-wa_1297205.jpg)
