Top 34 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

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

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.

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

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

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 learned to love dance for its own sake.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.