Thelonious Monks advice
* Just because youre not a drummer doesnt mean that you dont have to keep time.
* Pat your foot, sing the melody in your head when you play.
* Stop playing all (that bullshit, those wierd notes). Play the melody!
* Make the drummer sound good.
* Discrimination is important.
* Youve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?
* All reet!
* Always know
* It must be always night, otherwise they wouldnt need the lights.
* Lets lift the band stand!!!
* I want to avoid those hecklers.
* Dont play the piano part, Im playing that. Dont listen to me, Im supposed to be accompaning you!
* The inside of the tune (the bridge) is the part that makes the outside sound good.
* Dont play everything (or everytime); let some things go by. Some music just imagined. What you dont play can be more important than what you do play.
* A note can be small as a pin or (as) big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
* Stay in shape! Sometimes a musician waits for a gig & when it comes, hes out of shape & cant make it.
* When you are swinging, swing more! (What should we wear tonight? Sharp as possible!)
* Always leave them wanting more.
* Dont sound anybody for a gig, just be on the scene.
* Those pieces are written so as to have something to play & to get the cats interested enough to come to rehersal!
* Youve got it! If you dont want to play, tell a joke or dance, but in any case you got it! (to a drummer who didnt want to solo)
* Whatever you think cant 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.
http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/12/thelonius-monks-advice-to-musicians/
* Just because youre not a drummer doesnt mean that you dont have to keep time.
* Pat your foot, sing the melody in your head when you play.
* Stop playing all (that bullshit, those wierd notes). Play the melody!
* Make the drummer sound good.
* Discrimination is important.
* Youve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?
* All reet!
* Always know
* It must be always night, otherwise they wouldnt need the lights.
* Lets lift the band stand!!!
* I want to avoid those hecklers.
* Dont play the piano part, Im playing that. Dont listen to me, Im supposed to be accompaning you!
* The inside of the tune (the bridge) is the part that makes the outside sound good.
* Dont play everything (or everytime); let some things go by. Some music just imagined. What you dont play can be more important than what you do play.
* A note can be small as a pin or (as) big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
* Stay in shape! Sometimes a musician waits for a gig & when it comes, hes out of shape & cant make it.
* When you are swinging, swing more! (What should we wear tonight? Sharp as possible!)
* Always leave them wanting more.
* Dont sound anybody for a gig, just be on the scene.
* Those pieces are written so as to have something to play & to get the cats interested enough to come to rehersal!
* Youve got it! If you dont want to play, tell a joke or dance, but in any case you got it! (to a drummer who didnt want to solo)
* Whatever you think cant 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.
http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/12/thelonius-monks-advice-to-musicians/