Thelonious Monk Quote
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
Just a moment...
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Miles Davis
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
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Thelonious Monk embracing silence
genius,” jazz pianist Thelonious Monk once said, “is the one most like himself.”
Chuck Klosterman • The Nineties: A Book
"The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves." - Mozart
BookBrowse • The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
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“Everything I do is just personal taste and it’s what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart eno... See more
Write For Yourself
