Suzanne Farrell > Quotes

“I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.”
― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air

“Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.”
― Suzanne Farrell

“Treat each class as if it were your first.”
― Suzanne Farrell

“The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.”
― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air

“People have asked me what it was like to be on that stage, where I had lived so many lives, knowing it was the last time. Did my whole career pass through my mind in a flash? No, it didn't. It was not a memorial, it was a celebration. I felt like Cinderella at the ball, and I had been there all my life. It was roses without thorns.”
― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air

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― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography

“If he had thought at one time that he wanted something I couldn't give him, I hoped that now he knew that in truth he did get everything ... everything I had to give, the best of me.”
― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air

“I was in a place composed of tall spires. There was a sound, not Mozartiana, but a kind of shattering, prophetic, organ-like sound, and I was walking on the vibrating spires upward from one pinnacle to another. It wasn't precarious. My footing was very stable; I was holding on to the air.”
― Suzanne Farrell, Holding On to the Air