A. J. Pritchard Quotes

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

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

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

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

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.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

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

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.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

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.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

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 loved dance.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.