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

- Meredith Monk

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 …

- Meredith Monk

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

- Meredith Monk

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 …

- Meredith Monk

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

(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an a…

- Meredith Monk

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

- Meredith Monk

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 reali…

- Meredith Monk

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

- Meredith Monk