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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's Popular Quotes

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

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

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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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Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

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

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