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Thelonious Monk Quotes: Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.
         

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.


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I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.



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Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy



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The loudest noise in the world is silence.



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There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.



Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.



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Jazz is freedom. You think about that.



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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.



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The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.



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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.





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This page presents the quote "Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.". Author of this quote is Thelonious Monk. This quote is about chords, use, jazz, new ways, notes, adventure, running, figures,.