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Matthew Shipp Quotes

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Musician Quotes
Category:
American Musician Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 7, 1960
Nationality:
American
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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Matthew Shipp

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?
Matthew Shipp

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

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

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.
Matthew Shipp

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.
Matthew Shipp

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

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


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