Mark Morris Quotes

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Sunday is a day of rest.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.