Top 35 Wayne Mcgregor Quotes
#1. Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
Robert Gottlieb
#2. If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
Rudolf Steiner
#3. Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
Wayne McGregor
#4. Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#5. My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
Wayne McGregor
#6. 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
Wayne McGregor
#7. I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
Wayne McGregor
#8. If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
Wayne McGregor
#9. He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
Alan Hollinghurst
#10. Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
Wayne McGregor
#11. I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.
Wayne McGregor
#12. They are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.
Ken Wilber
#13. Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Wayne McGregor
#14. Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.
Charlie Ergen
#15. You and Victor are my North, South, East, and West. You are my Due Everywhere.
David Arnold
#16. If you've ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany well then my friend here is your fucking chance to find out.
Colin Dickey
#17. I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
Wayne McGregor
#20. I'm dangerously generous.
Mika.
#21. When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
Gordon Ramsay
#22. To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!
Margaret Cho
#23. Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
Wayne McGregor
#24. I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.
Diane Cilento
#25. Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
Wayne McGregor
#26. With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
Wayne McGregor
#27. I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
Haruki Murakami
#28. I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
Wayne McGregor
#29. I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor
#30. I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
Wayne McGregor
#31. What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Rumi
#32. Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
Wayne McGregor
#33. Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love.
Lisa De Jong
#34. I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
Wayne McGregor
#35. For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.
Wayne McGregor
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