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Thelonious Monk est un pianiste et compositeur de jazz américain célèbre pour son style d'improvisation, ainsi que pour avoir écrit de nombreux standards de jazz. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. octobre 1917 – 17. février 1982
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Thelonious Monk: Citations en anglais

“Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band. ]
Monk: "Why did we stop?"
Technician: "I thought you were rehearsing."
Monk: "Aren't we always?"”

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Thelonious Monk Documentary DVD.

“I don't know where it's going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”

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When questioned as to the future of jazz, as quoted in Jet magazine (31 March 1960), p. 30

“Which is the way to the toilet?”

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Circa 1966, reviewing "Easy Listening Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKavK4naYM from Oscar Peterson's With Respect to Nat, for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test"; reproduced in The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (1966) by Leonard Feather, p. 30

“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”

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Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976)
Source: Evan Spring, Phil Schaap Interview https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/phil-schaap-interview, WKCR, 5 October, 1992