Thelonious Monk: Self
Quotes
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Thelonious Monk : [scribbles something on a piece of paper] Can you read that?
Nica De Koenigswarter : A beautiful message.
Thelonious Monk : If somebody can decipher that for you, you know, and say what it means, get what it means, it'll upset you. You'll flip, I mean flip for real!
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Thelonious Monk : I play the introduction and then he'll play the introduction, he play it, and then Rouse will play it with us, together, about two times. You know, we do the chorus. And, then, the band come in. Yeah.
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Thelonious Monk : I would like to play a little tune I just composed not too long ago, entitled "Pannonica". It was named after this beautiful lady here. I think her father gave her that name after a butterfly that he tried to catch. I don't think he caught the butterfly.
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Reporter : Mr. Monk, you always wear different hats and caps in your concerts. Do they have an influence in your music?
Thelonious Monk : [laughs] No. Maybe they do. I don't know.
Reporter : And do you think the piano has enough keys? Eighty-Eight, or do you want more or less?
Thelonious Monk : I mean, it's hard work to play those eighty-eight.
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Thelonious Monk : Oh, that Thelonious Monk, he's crazy. Thank you.
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Thelonious Monk : Anybody else do that, they'd put 'em in a straight-jacket.
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Thelonious Monk : [to Nica] Ain't that right? The royal family came to your - eh - eh - grandfather and said - and cryin' the blues and all that, beggin'. And you said he laid the bread on him so he beat Napoleon. Right? They're sayin' that changed the world!
