Matthew Shipp Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#8d5ac844

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#b35e1d70

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#0848645d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#7efd38db

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#37b5ff1f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#71524d7a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#be192569

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/matthew-shipp-quotes/#a3a8b3ac

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