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The child must...
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end...
The heart of...
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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The first thing...
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Each person has...
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of...
To retire is...
To retire is to begin to die.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
Most ballet teachers...
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be...
The ballet is...
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the...
God creates, I...
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it from what I see, from what the dancers can...
First comes the...
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your...
In my ballets,...
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men:...
If I don't...
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows...
If the Almighty...
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that...
I occasionally play...
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing...
There is no...
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
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No matter what...
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other...
When I was...
When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a...
Before I compose...
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
The musician is...
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art...
Opera is a...
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
Why attack God?...
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
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