Suzanne Farrell Quotes

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

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.

I've always, always loved dancing.

When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

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

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

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

I loved dance.

Dance is so joyous.

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

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.

Everyone loves to dance. I've realize that's a part of what I do more and more every day.

I believe in dancing.

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

I've always felt like I can dance.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

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