Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

When I’m alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little – my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It’s like a signature, a fingerprint.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

People dance at any age.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance – suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Nobody is born a dancer.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

It’s what’s left in life, to work with interesting people.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don’t know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn’t at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

In ’74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

I’ve been hurt quite a few times.