Meredith Monk famous quotes

03-28-2025

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 the inevitability of something.
-- Meredith Monk

#Honesty #Voice #Never Quit
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
-- Meredith Monk

#Voice #Dancing #Singing
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
-- Meredith Monk

#Imagine #Form #Music Is
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 more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
-- Meredith Monk

#Art #Practice #Two
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. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.
-- Meredith Monk

#Past #Trying #Pieces
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 her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.
-- Meredith Monk

#Fun #Voice #Singing
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 be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.
-- Meredith Monk

#Teenager #Artist #Intuition
When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
-- Meredith Monk

#Worry #Moments #Form
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

#Thinking #Artist #Challenges
Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.
-- Meredith Monk

#Curiosity #Antidote

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