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Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 27, 1948

Topics

Children Art Experience People Never

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Funny God Time Myself Destination

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Action Participation Active Without

The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

John M. Grunsfeld

Age Time Men Moon Walking Earth

I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the last few years is Qawwali music. If you listen to a Qawwali singer like Aziz Mian - he's like James Brown. Qawwali is like Pakistani gospel-jazz. It's emotional, but it's also improvised, and it's all about that sacred-and-profane tightrope.

Good Music Influence You Singer Get

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

Jason Schwartzman

Me Back Find Know Band Playing

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Giving Audience See Coming Something

In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.

Waiting Talking Seeing Early See

The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and that tables, it really was fairly painful.

Process Painful Original Objects Did

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

Peace War Scars Veterans Day Bear

The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.

Change Great Talent Welcome Impact

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Anthony Bourdain

Mistake People Me Write Same Breath

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

Excuses Find Savings Month

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