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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

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Sometimes In The Past When

Meredith Monk

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.

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