
1952
from the front-page of the website of the Merce Cunningham Trust http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
1952
from the front-page of the website of the Merce Cunningham Trust http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/
Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
Attributed to Wieschaus in Together to Fly http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/55/05Q60/index.xml?section=science
when asked "Do you think you're sexy?") "20 Questions", Playboy, Vol. 29, No. 7 (July 1982
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”