Meredith Monk Quotes
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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 to…
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
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My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of…
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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material.…
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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 and…
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My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
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That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and…
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As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
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I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
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I think about that empty space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to…
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