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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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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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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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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."
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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
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"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
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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."
Jazz
"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
Influence
"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
Name
"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
"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."
People
"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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