Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

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

Love, Dumb, Partner

My feet are dogs.
Rudolf Nureyev

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

Fall, Run, Technique

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

Different, Question, Beginning

You live as long as you dance.
Rudolf Nureyev

Live, Long, Dance

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
Rudolf Nureyev

Mind, Enough, Expression

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.
Rudolf Nureyev

Love, Time, Beautiful

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
Rudolf Nureyev

Travel, Around, Dance

Of course I have a personal life.
Rudolf Nureyev

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

Before, Moment, Away

The only critic is a full house.
Rudolf Nureyev

House, Full, Critic

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Dancer

Born: March 17, 1938

Died: January 6, 1993

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