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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.

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.

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.

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 have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

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

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

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.

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.