Rudolf Nureyev famous quotes

04-17-2025

You live as long as you dance.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Long
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dance #Teacher #Class
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Motivational #Dance #Running
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dance #Soul #Body
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dance #Dumb #Ballet
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dance #Dancing #Body
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Art #Nature #Ability
As long as my ballets are danced, I will live
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Long
I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dancing #Different #Angle
I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
-- Rudolf Nureyev
The only critic is a full house.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#House #Full House #Critics
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Expression #Mind #Movement
Of course I have a personal life.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Personal Life
Iâ€™m really alive when Iâ€™m on stage,
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Alive #Stage
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Believe #Ballet #Gone
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
-- Rudolf Nureyev

#Dance #Age #Awareness

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