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Thelonious Monk
1917-1982

Thelonious Monk ". . . In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids... now felt somewhere at last." -John Clellon Holmes

Thelonious Monk Quotes

“Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.” -Thelonious Monk

“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.” -Thelonious Monk

“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.” -Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk “Where’s jazz going? I don’t know? Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.” -Thelonious Monk

“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” -Thelonious Monk

“I like to sleep. There is no set time of day for sleep. You sleep when you’re tired, that’s all there is to it.” -Thelonious Monk

“I don’t conside myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can’t develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don’t have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.” -Thelonious Monk

“Well, I enjoy doing it. That’s all I wanted to do anyway. I guess, you know, if I didn’t make it with the piano, I guess I would have been the biggest bum.” -Thelonious Monk “I don’t know where jazz is going. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.” -Thelonious Monk



Thelonious Monk Multimedia Directory

Thelonious Monk
Blue Monk
Thelonious Monk
In Berlin 1973
Thelonious Monk
Lulu's Back in Town Part 1
Thelonious Monk
Round About Midnight
Thelonious Monk
Epistrophy
Thelonious Monk at Town Hall - Part 1

Thelonious Monk Internet Directory

Diane di Prima
Poem For Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk:
The Web Site
Thelonious Monk:
At "Art & Culture
Thelonious Monk
A Site From Brazil
Thelonious Monk
References & Resources
Thelonious Monk
Artists of Jazz
Thelonious Monk
At the BBC.
Thelonious Monk
At Artist Direct
Thelonious Monk
"The Lonliest Monk".
"For Monk"
List of Compositions Written for
or Inspired by Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk:
At PBS
Thelonious Monk
At PRMS
Thelonious Monk
At Rolling Stone
Round About Monk
The European Thelonious Monk Web Site.
Thelonious Monk:
University of Illinois
Thelonious Monk
A Review (Austin Chronicle).
Thelonious Monk
The Lincoln Center Institute.
Thelonious Monk
The Official Site.
Thelonious Monk
At Ink Blot Magazine.
Thelonious Monk
@ Jazz Files
Thelonious Monk:
And Bud Powell
Thelonious Monk
The Discographies
Thelonious Monk
Song Book.
Thelonious Monk
Institute of Jazz
Thelonius Monk
@ Duke University
Thelonious Monk
Song Book.
Thelonious Monk
At Harlem.Org
Thelonious Monk
French Language Site.
Thelonious Monk
A Brief Profile.
Thelonious Monk
@ Village Jazz Recordings.
Thelonious Monk
Record Reviews.
Thelonious Monk
A Brief Biography.
Thelonious Monk
At "Jazz Image".
Thelonious Monk
A Brief Profile.
Telegraph Hill Books, Etc.
Beat Era Jazz & Beat Generation Books




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