Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Teacher, Class

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You live as long as you dance.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Long

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• What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Art, Nature, Intelligence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Expression, Mind, Movement

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• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Dance, Running

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• A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Dumb, Ballet

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• The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Dancing, Body

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• We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Soul, Body

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• I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dancing, Different, Angle

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• I’m really alive when I’m on stage.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Alive, Stage

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• There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Dance, Age

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• As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Long

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• The only critic is a full house.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  House, Full House, Critics

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• Of course I have a personal life.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Courses, Personal Life

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• I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Believe, Here I Am, Ballet

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• I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Ifs

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