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" I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up. "
Mark Morris
Growing
Singing
Growing Up
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" If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. "
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" There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going. "
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" That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century. "
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" I love making up titles. "
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Making
" I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided. "
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" Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive. "
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" The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible. "
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Home
Leave
Possible
" 'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing. "
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Need
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" I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want. "
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Class
People
Want
" Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them. "
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Art
Know
You
" I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something. "
Mark Morris
Working Together
Together
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" A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance. "
Mark Morris
Recording
Performance
" I'm very tough. "
Mark Morris
Very
Tough
" Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah. "
Mark Morris
Detail
Beautiful
Suspect
" Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been. "
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Love
Hate
Gay
" I have a beautiful, big bathtub. "
Mark Morris
Beautiful
Big
Bathtub
" We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything. "
Mark Morris
People
Time
You
" I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful. "
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You
Know
Love
" Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form. "
Mark Morris
Serious
Mean
People
" No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere. "
Mark Morris
Way
Dance
Start
" I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable. "
Mark Morris
Never
Eat
Treat
" Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options. "
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Way
Biology
I Am
" I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic. "
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Little
West Coast
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" Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't. "
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People
Some People
Work