Matthew Shipp's Quotes
Born: 1960-12-07
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of 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?
Tags: Marketing, Mean, PlayingI like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Tags: AblePeople 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.
Tags: Become, Looking, WholeThelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Tags: Fit, Name, PerfectWhat makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Tags: Done, Fact, MakesThe 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.
Tags: Language, Point, Punk