Alvin Ailey Quotes

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Alvin Ailey

Profession : Dancer

Birth : January 5, 1931

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

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We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

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I always want to have more dancers in my company.

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Money is a never-ending problem.

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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Alvin Ailey

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

Alvin Ailey