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

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

- Meredith Monk

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

- 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

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 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. …

- Meredith Monk

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

- Meredith Monk

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 melod…

- Meredith Monk

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 inevitab…

- Meredith Monk