I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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