Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLE -
What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLE -
We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE






