December 2011
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Thelonious Monk Private Recording With Wife...
Monk: It's the High Priest of Bepop talking.
Nellie: (Laughing) Oh,God!
Monk: The only one and only Thelonious Monk. The greatest pianist in the world.
Nellie: Who'd you say you were?
Monk: The High Priest of Bepop.
Nellie: And?
Monk: The one and only greatest musician.
Nellie: And?
Monk: The greatest musician that ever lived.
Nellie: And?
Monk: Huh? How much other shit you want me to be?
Nellie: I don't know, darling, anything you want to be.
“The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the...”
– The Night has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon (1873)
