No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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 all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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