14 Quotes by Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn’t dare to put yourself onstage.

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet’s curtain calls is the Royal Ballet’s dancing.

I don’t see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?