Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes About Dance

Quotes about: Dance

• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Injury, Smarter

  "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.

• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Motivational, Dance, Business

• The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet, Steps

• It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Simplicity, Legs

• There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Artist, Order

• People dance at any age.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Dance, People

• We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Giving, Trying

• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

• I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Surprise, Partnership

• I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, People, Recipes

• Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Heart, Eye

• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Sacrifice, Fields

• What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Beautiful, Dance, Light

• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Way, Nutcrackers

• You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Shapes, Admire

• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Successful, Ballet

• I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Dance, One Day

• Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Dance, Artistic

• Nobody is born a dancer.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Dancer, Born

• Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Dance, Renaissance

• I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Kind, Modern

• It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Years, Done

• I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Dance, Photography

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