Quotes by Dancer

"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."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Mother, Children, Favorite

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

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Education, Sense

"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

World,

"By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Collaboration, End, Right, Songs

"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Sound,

"I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!"

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Nature, Human nature, Want

"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Interest, Now, Want

"I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Love, First, Song, Songs

"I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

School,

"I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Life, Dance, Thinking

"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

People, Results, Want, Weight

"Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Goal, Career, Now, Want

"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Work, Production

"I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Home, Time, Road

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

Ted Shawn, American Dancer

American, Man

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

Ted Shawn, American Dancer

Art, Dance

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written."

Ted Shawn, American Dancer

Dance, Thoughts, Emotions, Man

"There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them."

Jerome Robbins, American Dancer

Work, Charm, Kids

"I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned."

Jaime Pressly, American Dancer

Hollywood, Old, Want

"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Success,

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Happiness, Success, Thought, Wrong

"The right to happiness is fundamental."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Happiness, Right

"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Work, Talent, Genius, Being

"God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Work, Talent, Genius, God

"Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Happiness, Life, May, Wishes

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Success, Work, Hard work, Measure

"Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it."

Annette O'Toole, American Dancer

Home, Kiss, Idea, End

"What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be."

Annette O'Toole, American Dancer

Hope, Being, Man

"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Dancer

Inspirational, Inspiration

"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Dancer

Love, Conversation, Dumb

"My feet are dogs."

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Dancer

Dogs, Feet

"People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown."

Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian Dancer

People, Saying, Will

"If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change."

Harold Nicholas, American Dancer

Change, Prejudice

"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."

Harold Nicholas, American Dancer

Brother, People, Ballet, Study

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Music, Press, Service

"Dance is so joyous."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Dance,

"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Journey, Reality, Relationships

"And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Dance,

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"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Birthday, Dance, Company

"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

People, Fact

"It's not a company of exponents of my style."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Company, Style

"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Now,

"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Nature, Work, People, Sound

"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Audience, Audiences

"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Dance, Company, Waiting

"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Music, Reputation

"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Drama, Opera, Theater, Theatre

"If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

People, Future, Help

"I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

People,

"How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it."

George Murphy, American Dancer

Dance, Dancing, Law, Practice

"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."

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

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"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."

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"By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation."

​

"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."

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"I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!"

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"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows."

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"I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first."

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"I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas."

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"I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance."

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"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want."

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"Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that."

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"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level."

​

"I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home."

​

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

​

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

​

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written."

​

"There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them."

​

"I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned."

​

"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."

​

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."

​

"The right to happiness is fundamental."

​

"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius."

​

"God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius."

​

"Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits."

​

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."

​

"Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it."

​

"What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be."

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"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."

​

"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"

​

"My feet are dogs."

​

"People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown."

​

"If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change."

​

"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."

​

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it."

​

"Dance is so joyous."

​

"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."

​

"And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate."

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"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."

​

"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."