“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible.
If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”

“Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" * ”

“See the music, hear the dance.”

“Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.”

“I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance”

“Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.”

“Dancing is music made visible.”