Ballet Class Quotes

• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Feet

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

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

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

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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• 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

  Dance, Dancing, Long

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• 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

  Dance, Discipline, Dancing

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Mystery

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Play, Piano

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

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Dancing, Trying

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Dancing

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

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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

  Dave Barry

  Dance, Dancing, Literature

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

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Feet, Dancing

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

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

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

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

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

  George Balanchine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• 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

  Dance, Heart, Shoes

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