Ballet Quote by C. L. R. James

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent…

— John F. Kennedy

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist…

— Steve Martin

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and…

— Bette Midler

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera…

— Sylvie Guillem

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the…

— Placido Domingo

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world…

— Kristin Chenoweth

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals,…

— Maureen Corrigan

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

— Christian Lacroix

My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert…

— Lalo Schifrin