All Suzanne Farrell Quotes
- I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. Cool
- When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. From
- You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from… All
- There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. Dancing
- So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. Dancing
- That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than… Becoming
- The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often… Ballet
- Of course, in the art class, I was the model. Art
- It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are… Lived
- Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I… Always Feel
- In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. Ballet
- The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. Amazing
- After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. Beautiful
- Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students):… All
- As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. Dance
- Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes… All
- Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from… Apart
- I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. Ballerina
- I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. Dance