Rudolf Nureyev Dance Quotations

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.