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Matthew Bourne

"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music."

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"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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Amber Hurdle

"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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Matthew Bourne
"The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times."

Success

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Matthew Bourne
"I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own."

Life

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Matthew Bourne
"A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece."

People

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Matthew Bourne
"With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it."

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Matthew Bourne
"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."

Imagination

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Matthew Bourne
"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music."

Music

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Matthew Bourne
"It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience."

Mind

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Matthew Bourne
"When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope."

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Matthew Bourne
"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience."

Experience

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Matthew Bourne
"It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done."

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