I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
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.
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
A habit does not a monk make.
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
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