Thelonious Monk Quote

Recently, this quote from the musician and composer Brian Eno in Eric Tamm’s biography has been floating back into my mind:

“The difficulty in feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and these are very important times. It’s the equivalent of dream time, in your dail... See more

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

― Miles Davis

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”