Matthew Shipp Quotes

"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
(Related: People, World)

"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
- Matthew Shipp
(Related: Influence)

"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
(Related: Marketing, Name, Style)

"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
(Related: Jazz, Language, Punk)

"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
- Matthew Shipp
(Related: Name)

"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
- Matthew Shipp
(Related: Fact)

"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
- Matthew Shipp
(Related: Hatred, Jazz)