Meredith Monk Quotes

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

When people give me the choice to either sing or dance, I'd rather dance than sing.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.

I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.

Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I feel like it's all-encompassing, and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

When movement isn't enough, you dance, or when speaking isn't enough, you sing. When it's organic, and it's earned like that in a musical, that's when it works, and then there's nothing like it because it's this thing that takes you to a whole 'nother level, you know?

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.