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" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

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" I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. "

" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "

" What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. "

" I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

" I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities. "

" A dancer's life is all about repetition. "

" I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. "

" The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. "

" What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. "

" It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through. "

" I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. "

" I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "

" I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. "

" Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language. "

" I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. "

" I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to. "

" 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people. "

" In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. "

" I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it. "

" My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. "

" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "

" I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. "

" My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' "

" We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "

" I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. "

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

" I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. "

" With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. "