87 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.