John Guare York Quotations

I believe that the New York City Ballet, its practical value is that it's about expansion of human possibilities. It's about healing. It's about food.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.