Meredith Monk Quotes

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.

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

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

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

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.

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