Suzanne Farrell Quotes

The people need to feel the music.

I would love to be able to tap dance.

Life without music would be a mistake.

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

When you get your shoes for the character, no matter what you had planned, as far as how you're gonna move, all of a sudden, you get a certain kind of feedback, in how you connect to the earth and you have to incorporate that.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

Any musical output is emotional.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

But not to have music would be unnatural to me.

From the very beginning, I was clear that it would always be music for me.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.

Music's my life, and it always has been.

I don't like talking about my love for singing.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

Music is something I can control.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.