Books Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each…

— Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long:…

— Robert Gottlieb

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

— Robert Gottlieb

'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the…

— Robert Gottlieb

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

— Robert Gottlieb

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

— Robert Gottlieb

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

— Robert Gottlieb

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

— Robert Gottlieb

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made…

— Robert Gottlieb

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

— Robert Gottlieb

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of…

— Robert Gottlieb

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

— Robert Gottlieb