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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."

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
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"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."


"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."


"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."


"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."


"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."


"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."


"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."


"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
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