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I don't know where it's going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
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All you're supposed to do is lay down the sounds.... If you ain't doing that, you just ain't a musician. Nothing more to it than that.
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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.
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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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Born:
October 10, 1917
Died:
February 17, 1982
(aged 64)
Bio:
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Known for:
Brilliant Corners (1957)
Straight, No Chaser (1967)
Misterioso (1959)
Monk's Music (1957)
Solo Monk (1965)
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