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I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
Matthew Shipp / Pianist
Able
People
Pigeons
People Being Like
Pigeon-Holed
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I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Matthew Shipp / Pianist
Avant Garde
Hatred
Imagine
Jazz
Utter
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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Matthew Shipp / Pianist
Bud
Influence
Piano
Piano Playing
Biggest Influence
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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Matthew Shipp / Pianist
Music
Bebop
Done
Illegitimate
Legitimate
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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Matthew Shipp / Pianist
Music
Fit
Monk
Names
Perfect
Sphere
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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 / Pianist
Generations
People
Prisoner
World
World Looking People
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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 / Pianist
Marketing
Mean
Monk
Names
Thinking
Scheme
Sphere
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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 / Pianist
Music
Elements
Jazz
Punk
Certain Point
Confrontational
Element
Iconoclastic
Mode
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