Matthew Shipp quotes
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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?”
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“What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.”
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“Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.”
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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.”
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“Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.”
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“I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.”
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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.”
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“I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.”
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“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”
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”
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“I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.”
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