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    Thelonious Monk

    Read through the most famous quotes from Thelonious Monk




    The piano ain't got no wrong notes. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #music #piano #music

    All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #musicians #subconsciously

    I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #biggest #bum #guess #i #know

    I never though much about race. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #i #much #never #race #though

    Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #be-bop #deliberate #developed #way

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


    — Thelonious Monk

    #doing #i #just #know #me

    I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #good #i #i can #play #pool

    I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #counting #go #i #money #stupid

    We have two kids, my wife and myself. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #myself #two #wife

    Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. ↗


    — Thelonious Monk

    #everybody #jazz #play #tries






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    [. It was later performed and recorded by other artists including Ornette Coleman Eric Dolphy and Bill Evans. issued 1996-7)
    Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998 2 CD Sony)
    The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000 3 CD Prestige)
    The Columbia Years: '62–'68 (2001 3 CD Sony)
    The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP Mosaic)
    All Monk.

    Visually he was renowned for his distinctive style in suits hats and sunglasses. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire including "Epistrophy" "'Round Midnight" "Blue Monk" "Straight No Chaser" and "Well You Needn't". Monk's manner was idiosyncratic.

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