Top 15 Meredith Monk Quotes

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

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#2. 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 learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

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

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#4. It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I've never had an empty house. Ever.

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#7. Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

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#11. 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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#12. 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 the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. Images are ... musical. The way they are put together are musical.

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