Matthew Shipp Quotes (8 Quotes)
- Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
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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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- 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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- What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
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- I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
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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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- I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
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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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