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Monk Quotes

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

Age Kind Monk Practicing Nonviolence

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

Simple I Am More Monk Less Am

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

Name Perfect More Monk Fit Than

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.

Passion Holiday Said Done Jazz Monk

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

Character Seed Comedy Quirky Monk

I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'

Loved Monk Brown Working Murphy

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

Good Music Spoiled Monk Complete

Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.

Today Fun People Say Days Monk

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

Sleep Rest Eat Monk Modern Being

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.

King Place Blues Everything Monk

A habit does not a monk make.

Francois Rabelais

Habit Monk Make Does

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.

People More Up Monk Catch Something

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Sea Service Green Fish Turtle Monk

I should have been a Trappist monk.

Monk Been Should

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Go Jazz Miles Monk Records Could

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

John Cameron Mitchell

Comfort Become Out Monk Take Come

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

Music Monk Finally Fit Found Horn

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

Live You Two Twins Monk Opposite

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

Go First See Out Monk Did

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.

Mother Food Learn She Ask Monk

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

Great Miles Things Monk Artists Who

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.

Life Time My Life Early Kind Monk

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.

Think Years Things Monk Just Would

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Burton Cummings

Life Lived Monk Buddhist Certainly

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