Quotes and Sayings About Ballet
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
-- Adam Garcia -
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
-- Agnes de Mille -
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke -
I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
-- Alan Bennett -
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
-- Albert Finney -
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
-- Alexander Dale Oen -
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
To dance is to give channel to the Creator.
-- Ali Abdullah Saleh -
I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
-- Alicia Vikander -
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
-- Alonzo King -
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.
-- Alonzo King -
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
-- Alonzo King -
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
-- Amy Adams -
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
-- Anais Nin -
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.
-- Angel Corella -
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.
-- Anna Paskevska -
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.
-- Anna Pavlova -
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
-- Ansel Elgort -
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
-- Anton Chekhov -
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
-- Artie Shaw -
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.
-- Buddy Ebsen -
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
-- C. L. R. James
