Monk Quotes

225 Monk quotes by 163 unique authors

As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If… — Jerome Rothenberg
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk.… — Thomas Merton
Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'. — Dexter Gordon
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all… — Miles Davis
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I… — Randy Weston
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read… — Anne Rivers Siddons
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear… — Sue Monk Kidd
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than… — Evagrius Ponticus
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man. — Evagrius Ponticus
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… — John Conyers
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music… — Jason Epstein
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands. — Benedict of Nursia
A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma — Tsem Tulku
Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me. — Ronnie Lott
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one… — Eckhart Tolle
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk… — Miles Davis
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he — Francois Rabelais
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and… — Charles Bukowski

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