Ballet Class Quotes:

I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening, Music And Dance

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

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

topic: Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing, Homecoming, Nobody Cares

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

- Diane Kruger

topic: Beautiful, Emotional, Ballet Class, Vivaldi, Sonatas

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

- Misty Copeland

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Ballet Class, Everyday, Normal

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

- Constanze Mozart

topic: Dream, Art, Communication, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

source: "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

topic: Inspiring, Dance, Sports, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

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

- W. H. Auden

topic: Dance, Stars, Rafters, Homecoming, Inviting

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

- Martha Graham

source: Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

topic: Dance, Passion, Dancing, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Dance

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

- Bill Austin

topic: Dance, Long, Dancing, Dance Steps, Art Dance

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too...

- Merce Cunningham

topic: Dance, Dancing, Discipline, Inspirational Dance, Ballet Class

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mystery, Dancers Inspiration, Pointe

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

- Mata Hari

topic: Dance, Movement, Courtesans, Inspirational Dance, Dance Class

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Piano, Play, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

- Vicki Baum

topic: Happiness, Dance, Dancing, Homecoming, Inspirational Dance

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

- Ted Shawn

topic: Dance, Art, Stuff, Inspirational Dance, Modern Dance

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

topic: Dance, Trying, Motivational Dance, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

- William Watson Purkey

topic: Heaven, Listening, Earth, Interesting Life, Just Living Life

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Life, Dance, Thinking, Inspirational Dance, Tap Dancers

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

- John Dryden

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

topic: Dance, Feet, Dancing, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

- Havelock Ellis

source: The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dance, Inspirational Dance, Dance Class

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Art, Inspirational Dance, Language Acquisition

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

- Agnes de Mille

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

topic: Dance, Women, Lying, Inspirational Dance, Never Lie

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

- George Balanchine

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

topic: Motivational, Dance, Art, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dance, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Music, Music And Life, Inspirational Dance

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

topic: Dance, Heart, Shoes, Last Dance, Motivational Dance

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

- Marcia Siegel

topic: Vocabulary, Order, Discipline, Ballet Class

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

- Mary Schmich

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

topic: Dance, Rooms, Living Room, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

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!

- Jiri Kylian

source: "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

topic: Dance, Teacher, Perfection, Ballet Class

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

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Dance Class, Pointe

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Stars, Heart, Men, Homecoming, Inviting

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

- Amanda Schull

source: "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Ballet Class

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

- Michelle Trachtenberg

topic: Practice, Class, Two, Ballet Class, Six Feet Under

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

- Misty Copeland

topic: Class, Careers, Years, Ballet Class

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

- Suzanne Farrell

source: "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

topic: Thinking, Hands, Class, Ballet Class

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

- Stephanie Gilmore

topic: Dad, Class, Sick, Ballet Class

She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

- Elisabeth Moss

topic: Mom, Mother, Believe, Proud Of Me, Wonderful Mother

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

- Rita Rudner

topic: Funny, Women, Class, Ballet Class

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

- Misty Copeland

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Basketball, Class, Clothes, Basketball Court, Ballet Class