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

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" Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. "

" The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

" Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement. "

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

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

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

" What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. "

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. "

" 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. "

" There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. "

" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

" The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark. "

" My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account. "

" I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. "

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

" 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. "

" Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. "

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

" The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. "

" 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. "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. "

" The formal education that I received made little sense to me. "

" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "