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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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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors."
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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"Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about."
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"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."
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"Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything."
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"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
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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."
People
"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
Fact
"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
Influence
"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."
People
"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
Name
"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?"
Marketing
"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."
Jazz
"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
Hatred
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