Michail Baryšnikov citáty

„Snažíme se protahovat naše svaly, jak jen to jde. Dělá nás to totiž mnohem svobodnějšími.“

„Nesnažím se tančit lépe než ostatní. Snažím se tančit lépe než já sám.“

„Tanec může odhalit všechna tajemství, která hudba obsahuje.“

„Prostě si sedni a otevři své oči i své srdce. To je taneční divadlo.“

“I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. Then you arrive in the States and it is $150 to go to an opera. Ridiculous. We have so much young talent on the streets, but because everything is commercial they finally drift away from their dream of their life.”

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”

“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”

“The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian ground, I realized this was never my home. My heart didn't even skip one beat.”

“You ask me what's happened in my life, why and how I did this and that. And I think and tell, but it's never true story, because everything is so much more complicated, and also I can't even remember how things happened. Whole process is boring. Also false, but mostly boring.”

“The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”

“Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know, human beings are extraordinary powerful survivors. My mother commit suicide. I was lucky it was not in front of me. O. K.? Which is truth, and Father was confused, and we never had any relationship, serious relationship. I never knew my father, in a way. But what? It's made me different? No, I mean. I blame for every fuckups in my life my parents? No. [Pause] I got lucky. I fell in love with dance.”

“You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB… Horrifying.”