We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system. "
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio. . . although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.