Matthew Shipp quotes

“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?”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“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.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“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.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.”
-- Matthew Shipp

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“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”

“I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.”

“I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.”