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Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote mus... See more
Some music is just imagined
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk
Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk • Thelonious Monk Quote
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent."
—Miles Davis
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
Meeting the man himself, it is hard to believe that such a quiet, calm, and serious individual could be responsible for the frantic ‘sheets of sound’ which emanate from his tenor saxophone, or that such [a] sensitive person could think of his uglier wailings on soprano as beautiful.”
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
Just a moment...
“Keep that genius in your brain on the move”
Keni Lamar The Heart Part 5