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The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.