David H. Koch Quotes

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

I don't follow football, but I always watch the Superbowl.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I very much like dance and dancers.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

I think 'American Pie' is great.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

Dance is in my background.

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

Taylor Swift is cool. And I like her music. She's a great performer, and she's fun to listen to at times.

The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly could and still support the storytelling.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.