- Laurie Anderson: I've been put into all different kinds of categories: New Music, Avant-Garde, Pop, whatever happens to be convenient for the person who is writing the category. I of course don't think 'I'm going to sit down and write a very experimental avant-garde thing, now I'm going to write a Pop thing.' Of course it isn't like that, it comes from really more the kind of story I want to tell, because lyrics are very important to me. And another kind of music of course is something I think of as almost a punctuation for language, it almost is not music: it is some kind of beat or fluffy atmosphere.
- Meredith Monk: I think for my whole working life I've been very interested in how I can integrate movement, music and theater into one form. And that way I guess I've always called my work 'operas' in one way or another. Because I'm always trying to weave these elements together and the continuity is the musical continuity but all these different elements are woven into a kind of tapestry- or I actually think of it more as a mosaic of different color tiles that are put on to make different layers of reality so what I'm trying for is a multi-perceptual musical theatre form.
- Tania Leon: For the past eight years, I have been deliberately moving into inclusion, more inclusion of what I am all about, in terms of putting whichever understanding I had of the techniques of writing with the different styles I have teamed through classical training, and yet I decided to also include everything that had to do with my own culture in terms of degrees of syncopation and interpretations of rhythms, of course tittered through my ears, through my own intellect. I feel that I am more honest with the music that I am writing at this point in my life.
- Pauline Oliveros: One of my favorite sound mediations is listening to the end of the sound. You have to come to some kind of agreement with yourself whether you are stiff hearing the sound or imagining the sound at the end of it. Where does it in fact end? This is a practice.