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

"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."

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

"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."

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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