Ballet Quotes - Page 3

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

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

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

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