Ann Reinking Quotes

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

The whole family, we are all kind of different.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

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

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

We try to put on the same show regardless of what stage or platform we're on.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

Each one is different; each season is different.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

I love to have contrast.

If you want to be a great team, you've got to be able to play 48 minutes.

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound. You don't want one thing to be bright, or too prevalent.

I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.