Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

I've been dancing for 10 years.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.