73 Quotes by Thelonious Monk

Jazz is my adventure.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

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.

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

I always believed in being myself.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.