Best Ballet Dancing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.”

Source: Blood Memory

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

“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. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”

Source: Blood Memory

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

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

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Author:Aamir Khan

“Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”

“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.”

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Author:John Lennon

“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.”

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“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.”

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Book:Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics

Source: Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics

“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

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

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

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

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

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

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”

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Author:John Green

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

“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.”

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Author:George Sava

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

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

“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.”

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

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Author:Jerome Robbins

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

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

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Author:Bill Irwin

“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.”

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Author:Liza Minnelli

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

“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 .”

Source: Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones

“Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.”

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Author:George Balanchine

“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

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

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Author:Ginger Rogers

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

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

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Author:Isadora Duncan

“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.”

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Author:Isadora Duncan

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

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

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

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Author:Manu Bennett

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