Nutcracker Quotes

Ever since I was a little boy, I would study composition. And it was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that influenced me the most. If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is killer, every one. So I said to myself, 'Why can't there be a pop album where every...' - People used to do an album where you'd get one good song, and the rest were like B-sides, they'd call them "album songs" - and I'd say to myself 'Why can't every one be like a hit song? Why can't every song be so great that people would want to buy it if you could release it as a single?. So I always tried to strive for that. That was the purpose for the next album. (Michael Jackson)
I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it. View quote
Laurieann Gibson
'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving. View quote
David H. Koch
I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own. View quote
Matthew Bourne
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way. View quote
Natalia Makarova
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. View quote
Robert Gottlieb