Becoming Quote by Mimi Rogers

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…

— Randy Weston

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…

— Roy Haynes

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered…

— Sonny Rollins

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

— Max Roach

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people…

— Anne Perry

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was…

— Geoff Dyer

“I thought I was wed to a king- now I find I am wed to a monk.”

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

— Jay London

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing but his…

— G.K. Chesterton