Suzanne Farrell Quotes

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
I learned to love dance for its own sake.
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
I was very much of a tomboy.
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
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Suzanne Farrell
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16 August, 1945
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