Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monkwas an American jazz pianist and composer. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than 1,000 pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth10 October 1917
CityRocky Mount, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I made the wrong mistakes
Jazz is my adventure.
Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
A genius is the one most like himself.
I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
I find my inspiration in myself.
We have two kids, my wife and myself.
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.