Robert Caro Quotes
"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Experience, Pretty)
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Work, Leader, Majority, Senate, states, United)
"I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Years)
"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Beauty, Life)
"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Ballet, Old, Years)
"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Life, Power, Biography, Democracy, Famous, Man)
"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."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Ballet)
"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Senate)
"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Ballet, Mystery, Want)
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Life, Ballet, Rest)
"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Life)
"My predictions are notably inaccurate."
- Robert Caro
"I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Ballet, Effort)
"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Beauty, Ballet, Generations, Wonder)
"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Theater, World)
"The Senate is an unknowing world."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Senate, World)
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Music, Dance, Ballet)
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Ballet, Faces)
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Power, Being, Democracy, Years)
"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Life, Ballet, First)