When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty,… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
