Thelonious Monk Quote

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.


Quoted in TIME (February 28, 1964)


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.

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.

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.

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.