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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
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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."
Power
"The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate."
Will
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Artist
"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."
Love
"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."
Lie
"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."
People
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Life
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
Music
"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
Education
"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."
Being
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