“Tentare di spiegare la musica è come tentare di danzare l'architettura.”
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
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Thelonious Monk frasi celebri
“Talvolta va a tuo vantaggio che la gente pensi che tu sia pazzo.”
Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.
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“È sempre notte, o altrimenti non avremmo bisogno della luce.”
It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.
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“Ho fatto gli errori sbagliati.”
dopo un'improvvisazione a lui insoddisfacente
I made the wrong mistakes.
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gioco di parole sul duplice significato del verbo inglese dig
You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
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“È stato un piacere parlare con te.”
dopo un viaggio di 6 ore in macchina con Bud Powell in cui non si erano rivolti parola
Thelonious Monk: Frasi in inglese
“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”
Interview in Down Beat magazine (28 October 1971)
Thelonious Monk Documentary DVD.
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?”
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.”
Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976) <br class="br">Origine: Evan Spring, Phil Schaap Interview https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/phil-schaap-interview, WKCR, 5 October, 1992
