Top 34 Jazz Monk Quotes
#1. Jesus, help us to build our faith in You, and to believe in Your provision for every need. We also ask You to give us a vision of what You want to do in our lives for Your glory. In Your name, amen.
Stephen Kendrick
#3. In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
Bill Orcutt
#4. He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.
Geoff Dyer
#5. Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I don't really care if you think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change!
Joan Jett
#7. Gathering that much information gives them power over everybody.
Julia Angwin
#8. I have been blessed to have experienced so much in my short lifetime.
LeAnn Rimes
#10. His eyes went past us to his kids as they descended upon the mouse, who had finally made a dash for the living room and found itself in its own personal hell.
Kim Harrison
#11. Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
John Lewis
#13. Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.
Lee Ezell
#14. This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the "sneaky like a cat" program. Today
Nalini Singh
#15. That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.
Shelby Lynne
#16. I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
Ted King
#17. And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban
#18. I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
Thelonious Monk
#20. The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.
T. S. Monk
#21. Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.
Erin Davie
#22. Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
Miles Davis
#24. 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
#25. No. No, it was a lonely writer I met one stormy day in Laguna Beach. He had a poem about Thelonious Monk that he sealed in a tin can and labeled Campbell's Cream of Piano Soup. Later I hear he killed himself to avoid the draft.
Tom Robbins
#27. Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Elbert Hubbard
#29. 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.
Thelonious Monk
#30. The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green
#32. I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days.
H.G.Wells
#33. Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
Thelonious Monk
