Lists of Note: Thelonious Monk’s Advice:

• Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep time.
• Pat your foot & sing the melody in your head, when you play.
• Don’t play the piano part, i’m playing that. don’t listen to me. I’m supposed to be accompanying you!
• Don’t play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music just imagined. what you don’t play can be more important that what you do.
• A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
• When you’re swinging, swing some more!
• You’ve got it! If you don’t want to play, tell a joke or dance, but in any case, you got it! (to a drummer who didn’t want to solo).
• Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along & do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
• They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.