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.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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.
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