If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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