Thelonious Monk Quartet – Epistrophy (Paris, 1966)
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Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.
-Thelonious Monk

I always wanted to play the piano, and jazz appealed to me.
-Thelonious Monk

I learned how to read music all by myself.
-Thelonious Monk

I think all styles are built around piano developments.
-Thelonious Monk

I was about 11 or something like that when I started, and used to play with all the different side bands when I was a teenager.
-Thelonious Monk

If my own work had more importance than any others, it’s because the piano is the key instrument in music.
-Thelonious Monk

If someone wants to play music you do not have to get a ruler or whips to make them practice.
-Thelonious Monk

Seems musicians come to New York and they reach a certain maturity, because there’s an awful lot of good musicians in New York.
-Thelonious Monk

The piano lays the chord foundation and the rhythm foundation, too.
-Thelonious Monk

Well, I like music and I like plays and that is what opera is.
-Thelonious Monk

All musicians are potential band leaders.
-Thelonious Monk

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
-Thelonious Monk

Be-bop wasn’t developed in any deliberate way.
-Thelonious Monk