Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)
“stop playing all those wierd notes, play the MELODY!”
“You’ve got to dig it to DIG it, you dig?”
“Don’t play EVERYTHING (or everytime) let some things GO BY. Some music just IMAGINED. What you DON’T play can be more important that what you DO.”
“A genius is someone MOST LIKE HIMSELF”
