Meredith Monk Quotes

"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."
- Meredith Monk
(Related: Art, Life, Practice, Separation)

"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."
- Meredith Monk
(Related: Time, Work, Information, Old, Past, Trying)

"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."
- Meredith Monk
(Related: Work, Artist, Intuition, Want)

"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."
- Meredith Monk
(Related: Honesty, Clarity, Voice)