"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

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“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.”
“But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,â€ he said, â€œwhen I had no idea what you looked like. I thought it delicious, the way you bargained for me, as though I were an old rug. Then I loved the way you looked at me. Then I loved the way you ordered me about. I loved your patient and impatient ways of explaining things to me. I love the sound of your voice and the way you move. I love your courage and your kindness and your generosity and your obstinacy and your passion.â€ He paused. â€œYouâ€™re the genius. What do you think that means?”
“Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.”
“I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.”
“The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.”
“To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.”
“My old mind hadnâ€™t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that Iâ€™d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisleâ€™s compassion and Esmeâ€™s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.”
“When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.”

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