Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
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“You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.”
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“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.”
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“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.”
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“When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.”
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“You don't measure life by receiving awards.”
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“When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.”
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“I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.”
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“Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.”
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“Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.”
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“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.”
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“You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.”
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“There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.”
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“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.”
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“When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.”
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“No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.”
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“The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”
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“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”
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“I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.”
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“It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.”
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“I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.”
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“I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.”
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“You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.”
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“I am not the first straight dancer or the last.”
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“Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.”
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“It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.”
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“Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.”
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“Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.”
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“Running a company is pretty demanding.”
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“The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.”
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