Matthew Shipp Quotes

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

Playing, Influence, Piano

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

Mean, Playing, Marketing

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

Hatred, Imagine, Jazz

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

Become, Whole, Looking

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

Point, Language, Punk

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

Perfect, Name, Fit

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

Done, Fact, Makes

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Nationality: American

Born: December 7, 1960

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