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" A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. "
Harsha Bhogle
" 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
" I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk. "
Burton Cummings
" I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. "
Dalai Lama
" I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. "
Ted King
" I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues. "
Eric Clapton
" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "
Nell Scovell
" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "
Moby
" I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse. "
Torii Hunter
" I should have been a Trappist monk. "
David Blunkett
" I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile. "
Rich Mullins
" I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food. "
Kabir Bedi
" I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away. "
Stephen Hough
" I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete. "
Steve Lacy
" Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year. "
Billy Dee Williams
" Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things. "
John Gourley
" My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. "
John Keats
" So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. "
Satish Kumar
" Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. "
Matthew Shipp
" 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
" When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk. "
Cecil Taylor
" 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
" When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion. "
Jose James
" You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually. "
Scott Ellis
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