"Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet"

-- Tatsumi Hijikata

#Feet Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.”
“I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'”
“Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists”
“You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
“Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning â€œgatherer of beautiful things.”
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”
“Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!”

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