You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.