I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. Its a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
People of art should never get married and have children, because its a selfish experience. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. – Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969