Ballet Dance Quotes

• Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Dancer, Technique

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• Ballet is only good when it is great.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Ballet, Ballet Dancer

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”, Random House Inc

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• What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

  Edward Villella

  Dance, Greek, Ballet

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Ballet Class

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• I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

  George Balanchine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Even the ears must dance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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• We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Dream, Art

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