There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

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

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

The woman is the reflection of her man

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

Everyone takes fashion so seriously! It's fashion - enjoy it!

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.