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" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

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" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "

" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "

" I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera. "

" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "

" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "

" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "

" What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' "

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "