Ballet Quotes

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  The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Dance, Positivity

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

  Twyla Tharp

  Way, Needs, Stories

  "Tharp's New Tale, Woven In Dance" by Gia Kourlas, www.nytimes.com. February 03, 2012.

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

  Alicia Alonso

  Dance, Art, Exercise

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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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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• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Athlete

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

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Technique

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• You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

  Greg Ray

  Girl, Dancing, Tiptoes

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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• If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

  Artie Shaw

  Needs, Beats, Ifs

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• Classical ballet will never die.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Art, Classic

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• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Believe, Cities

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• You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

  Deborah Bull

  Training, Example, Weight

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• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Dancer, Earth

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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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• I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Medicine

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• One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Dancing, Royal

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Stories, Impossible

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Elle Macpherson

  Firefighter, Study, Wanted

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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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, Mind

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