Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monkwas an American jazz pianist and composer. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than 1,000 pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth10 October 1917
CityRocky Mount, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.
I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
A genius is the one most like himself.
The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.
I always believed in being myself.
Miles'd got killed if he hit me.
Everyone is a genius at being themselves
I made the wrong mistakes