Ballet Dancing Quotes:

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

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

topic: Dream, Art, Laughter, Inspirational Dance, Modern Dance

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

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

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

topic: Dance, Dancing, Arms, Dancers Inspiration, Ballet 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

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

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

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

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

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

- Merce Cunningham

source: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”

topic: Dance, Wall, Museums, Dance Love, Fleeting Moments

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

- Liza Minnelli

topic: Dance, Sports, Baseball, Ballet Dancing

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Men, High Heels, Dancing, Inspirational Dance, Ballet Dancing

On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

- Henny Youngman

topic: Girl, Dancing, Ballet, Tiptoes, Pointe

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

- Bill Irwin

topic: Dance, Powerful, Body, Pointe Dancers, Ballet Dancer

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

- Jerome Robbins

topic: Dance, Done, Over It, Dance Is Life, Dance Life

[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

- Sondra Horton Fraleigh

topic: Skills, Names, Feelings, Ballet Dance, Ballet Dancing

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

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Dance, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coaching

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham

source: Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

topic: Believe, Learning, Athlete, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Music, Dance, Soul, Luminous, Choreography

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Dance, Real, School, Supple, Ballet Dancer

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

- George Balanchine

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

- George Carlin

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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Humour And Laughter, Motivational Dance

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

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

- Voltaire

source: "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

topic: Dance, Reading, Two, Dancers Inspiration, Classical 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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

- James Brown

topic: Happiness, Dance, Dancing, Inspirational Dance, Bboy

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

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

- Samuel Beckett

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

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

source: "This thing called ballet".

topic: Dance, Men, Expression, Ballet Dance, Ballet Dancer

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

- Ruth St. Denis

topic: Dance, Communication, Soul, Inspirational Dance, 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

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

- Vicki Baum

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

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

- Mata Hari

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

I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.

- John Lennon

topic: Dancing, Ballet, Would Be, Ballet Dancing

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

- Aamir Khan

topic: Play, Dancing, Ballet, Badminton, Ballet Dancing

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

- Roselyn Sanchez

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

topic: New York, Piano, Numbers, Puerto Rico, Comedy Shows

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

- Manu Bennett

topic: Dancing, Ballet, Physique, Ballet Dancing