Best Ballet Class Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“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.”

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Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“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.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“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.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“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.”

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Author:Diane Kruger

“Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”

“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.”

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Author:Amanda Schull

“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.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

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

Source: Dave Barry Turns 50

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

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

Source: America dances

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

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Author:Rita Rudner

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

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

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

“I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to 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.”

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

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

“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.”

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

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

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

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

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Merce Cunningham

“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.”

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Author:Bill Austin

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

“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!”

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Author:Jiri Kylian

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

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Marcia Siegel

“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.'”

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Author:Stephanie Gilmore

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well.”

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

“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.”

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Author:Suzanne Farrell