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
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
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
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there’s not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. – Matthew Shipp
