when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.