Meredith Monk Quotes

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

Meredith Monk

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• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Day
  • Car
  • Tribe

• But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Husband
  • Inspiration
  • Author

• I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Moon

• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Father
  • Dad

• Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Mind
  • Girls
  • Straightforward

• I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

  

  Victor Salva
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Success
  • Musicians

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Great
  • History
  • High

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Joy
  • Cherry
  • Monterey

• I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Live
  • Money
  • Done

• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Earth
  • Waiting
  • Baseball

• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Jesus
  • Results
  • Instructions

• The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

  

  William Randolph
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Greatest

• My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Childhood
  • Inside
  • Suddenly

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

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Voice
  • Theater
  • Dancing