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

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• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

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• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

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• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

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• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

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• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

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• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

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• I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

  

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• I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  

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• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

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• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

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• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  

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• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

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• I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

  

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• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

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• A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.

  

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• To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

  

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• Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

  

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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

  

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• I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

  

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• Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'

  

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• 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
  • Different
  • Practice
  • Things