Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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