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

- John Lone

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

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

- Steve Lacy

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

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

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

- Matthew Shipp

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'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

- Adam Driver

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

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

- Juliana Hatfield

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- John Keats

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

- Harsha Bhogle

A habit does not a monk make.

- Francois Rabelais

I should have been a Trappist monk.

- David Blunkett

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

- Dalai Lama

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

- Dalai Lama

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

- Burton Cummings