Bops Quote by Thelonious Monk Download Open image “If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.” — Thelonious Monk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bops Freedom Ifs Inspirational Jazz Love Music Musical
I don't think I will ever understand what freedom means, but I am enjoying learning. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear… — Dan Feiszli Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio,… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
Rob Mullins is a diverse keyboardist capable of both crossover and bop. — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image