73 Quotes by Thelonious Monk

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

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.

I’m famous. Ain’t that a bitch?

Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

YOU'VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? ... ~ Thelonious Monk

You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.