I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an 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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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