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Thelonious Monk

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CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Ha...
CARLOS SANTANA The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his calle...
BENNY GREEN Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.
THELONIOUS MONK Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
THELONIOUS MONK Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonio...
TREVOR ST. JOHN I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for si...
CHICK COREA There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with ...
MAIRA KALMAN I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thel...
MOSE ALLISON When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was fu...
STEVE LACY When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, ...
JOSE JAMES [This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk q...
MARY STUART When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to ...
BLAISE PASCAL Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha...
ERIC CLAPTON All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We must always seek the truth, but expect to only find more questions. The answers must come from wi...
THELONIOUS MONK CARTER JR. Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously. Otherwise they are biased.
TAPAN GHOSH Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise they are biased.
TAPAN GHOSH Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise, they are biased.
TAPAN GHOSH Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
BILL GAEDE Life's irony;Some enter a love relationship subconsciously & then subconsciously become unloving.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Are all Canadians talented musicians? Sometimes it seems like it.
BRENT GRULKE All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
MARC BOLAN When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the The...
CHRIS RASCHKA Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can.
DEYTH BANGER First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate...
ANDRE WEIL I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.
JONATHAN IVE Musicians are impossible.
EVE BABITZ Musicians are PHENOMENAL.
STEPHANIE LAHART Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
CARL GAUSS Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS We're all songwriters and singers and musicians.
GLENN HUDSON Every thought we think or act we perform in life,we are consciously or subconsciously sowing seeds.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My three German friends are all well known musicians having already carved a niche in the world aren...
DIPAK SARMA I consciously or subconsciously draw on whatever attributes are most appropriate to the character an...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classi...
WYNTON MARSALIS You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a ...
JEFF ABRAHAM All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platoni...
SYLVAIN CAPPELL The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Your heart new to the world, and full of warmth and sensibility, receives its first impressions with...
MATTHEW LEWIS Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal music...
MARCOS CURIEL Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or...
CHRIS STAPLETON I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING We are soldiers first and then musicians.
CAPT. WILL COLQUHOUN It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, emp...
JOSHUA REDMAN If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be qu...
BILL DIXON The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide...
BRANFORD MARSALIS I had no money, ... I'd pay the musicians and go home broke, to make sure they'd stay working, 'caus...
CHARLES NEVILLE Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE I am a simple Buddhist monk.
DALAI LAMA I felt like poisoning a monk.
UMBERTO ECO At Length the Fox turnes Monk.
GEORGE HERBERT A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more perman...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
ALBERT EINSTEIN What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
ALBERT EINSTEIN [I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
DANIEL BERNOULLI He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.
NIELS H. ABEL It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I was x years old in the year x^2.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
ABRAM SAMOILOVITCH BESICOVITCH Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show app...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love admits no qualifying dross.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love's reason's without reason.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
Sh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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SUE MONK KIDD Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
T...
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SUE MONK KIDD After you get stung, you can't get unstung
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SUE MONK KIDD Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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