Ballet Quote by Bryce Dessner

When I'm making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back and translate…

— Justin Peck

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

— Robert Caro

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale.…

— John Zorn

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it,…

— Andrew Bird

I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take…

— Andre Previn

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or…

— Misty Copeland

In ballet, it doesn't matter who you are. If you're good, it's such a rare thing, so unusual, that the talent will go wherever…

— Francesca Hayward

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things…

— Sonoya Mizuno

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner