Inspiration Quote by Thelonious Monk

I made the wrong mistakes

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

— Thelonious Monk

When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to…

— Thelonious Monk

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

— Thelonious Monk

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…

— Talib Kweli

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from…

— Tinsel Korey

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

— Sun Ra

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny