There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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 choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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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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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.
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