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Agnes de Mille

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
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"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
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"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
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"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
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"The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend."
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"The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate."
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"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."
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"Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be."
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"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
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