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Dance Quotes by Alvin Ailey
- Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
- The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
- Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
- I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
- I always want to have more dancers in my company.
- No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.
- My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to…
- If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
- DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close…
- But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
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