1.
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.
Rudolf Nureyev
When I take an absence from one lesson, I am aware. When I miss two consecutive lessons, my instructor is alerted. Upon missing three classes in a row, the wider community notices.
2.
You live as long as you dance.
Rudolf Nureyev
3.
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
Rudolf Nureyev
4.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
Rudolf Nureyev
5.
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf Nureyev
6.
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Rudolf Nureyev
7.
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
Rudolf Nureyev
8.
I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.
Rudolf Nureyev
9.
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
Rudolf Nureyev
10.
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
Rudolf Nureyev
11.
As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.
Rudolf Nureyev
12.
I’m really alive when I’m on stage.
Rudolf Nureyev
13.
Of course I have a personal life.
Rudolf Nureyev
14.
The only critic is a full house.
Rudolf Nureyev
15.
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
Rudolf Nureyev
16.
I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
Rudolf Nureyev
