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.

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.