Mark Morris famous quotes

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

#Dance #Dancing #People

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
-- Mark Morris

#Giving #Advice #World

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.
-- Mark Morris

#Cooking #Problem #Restaurants

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.
-- Mark Morris

#Ballet #Likes #Modern

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.
-- Mark Morris

#Meals #Watches #Littles

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.
-- Mark Morris

#People #Music Is #Recorded Music

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

#People #Opera

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

#People #Reason

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.
-- Mark Morris

#Beautiful #Bigs

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.
-- Mark Morris

#Ideas #Way #Enough

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
-- Mark Morris

#People #Long #Working Together

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

#Self #Want #Today

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

#Dancing #Said

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

#Opinion #Aspect #Certain

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

#Growing Up #Singing #Technique

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.
-- Mark Morris

#Simple #Way #Fabulous

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
-- Mark Morris

#Sex #Way #Weakness

Sunday is a day of rest.
-- Mark Morris

#Sunday