A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
John Lone

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
John Conyers

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
Mimi Rogers

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

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
Steve Lacy

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
Mose Allison

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
Moby

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
Jaime King

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
Jimmy Chamberlin

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.
Clifford Longley

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Satish Kumar

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Steve Lacy

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

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Tom Hanks

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Steve Lacy