Quotes about Matthew Shipp

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that...

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The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that...

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People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things,...

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I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk -...

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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

#Matthew Shipp