Mark Morris on Dance Cos. That Don’t Use Live Music

“If you don’t have enough money to use gigantic orchestral music with a giant orchestra, don’t choreograph to it. There’s always a pianist who’s eager and maybe you can afford. … A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It’s not the performance. … And, you know, I’m not saying, ‘Shame on everybody for not doing that, doing what I do,’ ’cause it’s of course expensive and complicated.”