Mark Morris

Dancer

66 Quotes

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

I'm very tough.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Sunday is a day of rest.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

I love making up titles.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

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