Meredith Monk Quotes

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

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• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only

• Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Home
  • Way
  • Imagine

• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • World
  • Game
  • Imagine

• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Future

• I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Imagine
  • Satisfying
  • Wow

• Generally speaking, there's a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage. It's not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is - imagine the cartilage of game meat.If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, "What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire," I'd be like, "That's moose nose!"

  

  Adam Richman
  • Game
  • Car
  • Imagine

• You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Imagine

• Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Imagine

• When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Work
  • God
  • Imagine

• Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Book
  • Power
  • Imagine

• To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it.

  

  Socrates
  • Help
  • Precise
  • Easygoing

• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • State

• I would imagine the ones they really like!

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Imagine
  • Ones

• I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Imagine
  • Direction
  • Thieves

• Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • World
  • Imagine

• As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest? It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Imagine
  • Destroy
  • Response

• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Ideas
  • Precise
  • Readership

• I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Always

• Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

  

  Jonathan Kellerman
  • Help
  • Need
  • Run

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

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Imagine
  • Precise
  • Intricate