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🇺🇸Martha Graham

Education

1894–1991

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."

"I have twins. They are 4 years old. They know the word 'concert,' so they know father's job is 'concert,' and they prefer concert father."

"I’m surprised by the success of anything I do, but it’s gratifying when the public approves."

"That's because I simply carried on dancing, . It was my first love, and thanks to my taskmaster of a grandmother , I had never stopped my Bharata Natyam."

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🇮🇱Tami Stronach

b. 1972

"The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become."

"Tchaikovsky thought of committing suicide for fear of being discovered as a homosexual, but today, if you are a composer and not homosexual, you might as well put a bullet through your head."

"Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life."

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🇺🇸Mikhail Baryshnikov

Entertainment

b. 1948

"The more injuries you get, the smarter you get."

"For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art."

"More than 120 takes. Those kinds of things ... You "Wow, Jackie's good." It's not good. You can do it. Except, do you have the patience or not?"

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."

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🇩🇪Joseph Martin Kraus

Music

1756–1792

"The symphony he wrote here in Vienna especially for me will be regarded as a masterpiece for centuries to come; believe me, there are few people who can compose something like that."

"Good manners. They're forgotten in America. I think it's bad manners to stand around in public with ripped jeans and your hair in a mess, holding a Starbucks."

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🇺🇸Mark Morris (choreographer)

Entertainment

b. 1956

"If that means that it's not for everybody, then yes. "Elitist" doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing."

"QUESTION: A well-known saying of yours asserts that 'Every man is an artist.' If every man is an artist, then why have art academies and art professors at all?"

"I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!"

"When I was growing up there were few Asians on TV and now I'm one of many and that makes me happy. I see how far we've come, which is amazing. But diversity is still an issue and we have to continue to grow the message."

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music

1840–1893

"Fate... hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles and inexorably distills a slow and deadly venom. One must bend to it and abandon oneself to boundless despair..."

"But the dance of the future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, is mere merchandise."

"The art audience is very receptive to what I do. It's a mutual influence."

"In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* ."

"There are only people who are fluidly-gendered, and … the norm is that most of these people continually struggle to maintain the illusion that they are one gender or another."

"I may write only what I know in space: I am that I am."

"I'd never seen him out front before. It was also the first time I realized that Fred had sex appeal. Fred. Wherever did he get it?"

"Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat."

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it."

"And he said: Now, I'm the Soul Doctor, and you know, language is a virus from outer space, and hearing your name is better than seeing your face."

"And this superconsciousness of necessity embraces a continual sensation of unconditional bliss and unconditional Love, conjoined with which is a supreme wisdom and power."

"You go out in search of affirmation that you’re good, that people like you. But this time it was different – I was out there because I wanted to feel the pleasure of singing."

"People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

"The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it."

"We never, ever, do nothin' nice and easy. We always do it nice and rough."

"This city is a completely female city. Female town. Beijing is male. All rough and politics. Shanghai is more delicate. Money talks. Beautiful. I had enough rough. I need details. Specially because a lady. I need city."

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."

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