Martha: We're on our way to a funeral you wanker! Don't you have any respect?
Martha: I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you.
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be
The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
She said, "Well, that's right, she's going to heaven very soon. And now it's time for us to say good-bye to her and tell her how much we love her." Mary martha nodded and looked at the needlepoint in her hands. "Will her brain still be hurt, in heave...
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
