Wayne McGregor Quotes

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

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.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

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

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I loved dance.

Dance is so joyous.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.