I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
- Matthew Shipp
Hatred, Imagine, Utter, Avant-Garde
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
Think, Part, Scheme, Sphere
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
- Matthew Shipp
Perfect, Fit, His, Sphere
I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
- Matthew Shipp
Like, Able, Being, Pigeon-Holed
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
Jazz, Part, Certain Point, Confrontational
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
- Matthew Shipp
Piano, Bud, Biggest, Biggest Influence
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
- Matthew Shipp
Fact, Makes, Legitimate, Bebop
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
Generation, Own, Come, Prisoner
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