“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” ArtFunnyTalkingMusicHumourMusicianMusic IsDancingJazzDanceArchitectureComedianArchitectMonkClassical MusicJazz MusicRock MusicJust DanceJazz MusicianWriting MusicDance MusicArt And MusicFunny MusicMusic And DanceModern ArchitectureClassic MusicSound And MusicFunny DancePiano MusicMusic WritingPlaying BassMusic Producer Author:Steve Martin
“Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'” SaidGuyFallMusicCrazyBirdJazzFalling In LoveMusicalMonkBud Author:Charles Mingus
“One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.” ImportantReasonMusicAliveImportant ThingsJazzMusicalDedicationMonkJazz Music Author:Sonny Rollins
“I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.” KnowsMusicJazzDefinitionsMonkJazz Music Author:Thelonious Monk
“Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.” MusicRolesJazzMusicalMonkSubservient Author:Max Roach
“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.” IfsWayWantYearsDoePlayMusicPicksTwentiesJazzWhat You WantFifteenMonkJazz MusicJazz MusicianPlaying Jazz Author: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.” PeopleFirstsBelieveIdeasStoriesSpeakI BelieveMusicFeetFashionBeatsHappeningsStructureJazzNotesInstanceUnexpectedRejectsDestroyingNew IdeasShockingMonkJazz MusicPretextIllogicalDestroying Everything Author:Thelonious Monk