Thelonious Monk Quotes

• I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

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  Music, Years, Play

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• El ruido más fuerte del mundo es el silencio.

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  Silence, World, Noise

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• There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

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  Notas

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• Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

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  Locura, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

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  Thinking, Genius, Done

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• Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

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  Music, Trying, Rock N Roll

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• Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

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  Music, Memorable, Thinking

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• Everyone is a genius at being themselves

  Thelonious Monk

  Genius

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• The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

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  Humor, Cat, Deep Thought

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• Cuando era niño, algunos de los chicos intentaban que odiara a los blancos por lo que habían estado haciendo a los negros, y durante un tiempo lo intenté con todas mis fuerzas. Pero cada vez que llegaba a odiarlos, aparecía un blanco y lo echaba todo a perder.

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  Hate, Real, Kids

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• All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

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  Math, Musician, Mathematician

  "Down Beat" Magazine, October 28, 1971.

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

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  Music, Imagination, World

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• 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.

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  Play, Important

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• It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

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  Mean, Sound, Different

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• Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

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  Running, Adventure, Use

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• Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

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  Mean, Jazz, Drummer

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• Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

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  Home, Way, Feels

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• No me considero un músico que haya alcanzado la perfección y no pueda evolucionar más. Pero compongo mis piezas con una fórmula que yo mismo he creado. Pensemos en un músico como John Coltrane. Es un músico perfecto, que puede expresar todas las posibilidades de su instrumento. Pero parece tener dificultades para expresar ideas originales con él. Por eso sigue buscando ideas en lugares exóticos. Al menos yo no tengo ese problema, porque, como digo, encuentro mi inspiración en mí mismo.

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  Inspiration, Expression, Ideas

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• I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

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  Music, Definitions, Jazz

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• After two takes you're imitating yourself.

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  Music, Two, Jazz

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• It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

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  Night, Light, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.

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  Music, Fashion, Believe

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• A genius is the one most like himself.

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  Genius, Jazz, Monk

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• I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

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  People, Doing Me, Knows

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• The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

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  Piano, Notes, Pianist

  "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". p. 444. Book by Robin Kelley, 2009.

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