87 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically.