Mark Morris Quotes

My first vocation was dance.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I have worked with several dance companies.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

I very much like dance and dancers.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

I did a lot of dancing when I was young.

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

I was a dancer.