Suzanne Farrell Quotes

"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."
-Suzanne Farrell

"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
-Suzanne Farrell

"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."
-Suzanne Farrell

"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
-Suzanne Farrell

"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."
-Suzanne Farrell

"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."
-Suzanne Farrell

"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."
-Suzanne Farrell

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