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Matthew Shipp Quotes:

Matthew Shipp quotes

Ocupation: Pianist

Life: b. December 7, 1960

Birthday: December 7

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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Names

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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Topics: Music, Bebop, Done, Illegitimate Child

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Topics: Music, Names, Perfect

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Topics: Music, Elements, Jazz

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Topics: Piano, Bud, Influence, Piano Playing

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Topics: People, Pigeons, Able

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Topics: People, World, Way

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

Topics: Hatred, Avant Garde, Jazz

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