I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Dance in the body you have.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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