Patricia McBride Quotes

I took tap classes growing up.

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

It's actually a privilege to actually learn how to really dance.

One of the ways to use your depth is to play with speed.

I can make a beginner, anyone with no dance experience, look amazing if we put in the hours.

A lot of young drummers have a tendency to really overplay. Sometimes simple is better, and the notes that aren't played between the spaces are bigger than the notes that are.

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.

The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.

Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

Dancing isn't easy, and to just jump into three to four hours of rehearsals a day is a lot.

My vibrato was my weakness. With romantic pieces, I could be a lot more schmaltzy. My wider vibrato fit that.

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.

I'm a lousy dancer.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.