Body Quote by Meredith Monk

“I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.”

Meredith Monk

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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…

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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

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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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I've never had an empty house. Ever.

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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,…

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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…

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I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

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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…

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It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings…

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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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In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival…

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