Suzanne Farrell Quotes
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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.
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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
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When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
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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.
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
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And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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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.
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But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.