Mark Morris Quotations

The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

So I'll do what I can to let people see that now.

Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm.

I can't say because I don't get into that part of the business,

Here we're talking about some galactic scale event that takes an already very massive cloud and just crushes it into extremely high densities forming, in one fell swoop, hundreds and hundreds of stars, most of which are far more massive than our own sun.

I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

You have to assume the partners are going to sell. It's to be expected when the restrictions are lifted.

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

Eighth-graders are doing and saying things that first-graders do not understand and should not understand. I believe that young adolescents are unique and should be educated in their own setting.

Steve Wynn has a terrific record of building and developing premier entertainment and lodging facilities in Las Vegas.

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.

In all fairness, it's not as though the gay films lost arbitrarily. The other movies like 'Crash' -- my God, it was underrated, but my God, it was brilliant.

I'm not 100 per cent certain what my wages budget will be for next season and while it is still up in the air I can't afford to re-sign anyone who is out of contract.

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

I read that, ... But I don't talk about journalism. It's not about me. It's about the writer.

I do know that the transition is difficult for some students, but I think that it is good for growth and they need to get used to the fact that life is going to throw changes at them.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

Sunday is a day of rest.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

You can regard these magnetic field lines as akin to a taut rubber band. If you twist one end, the twist will travel up the rubber band.