Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. — Ned Rorem
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing… — Robert Caro
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. — Robert Caro
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the… — Robert Caro
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous… — Robert Caro
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world — Vanessa Carlton
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other… — Gary Kemp
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. — Oksana Baiul
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast. — Svetlana Boginskaya
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I… — Randy Weston
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost… — Herschel Walker
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s… — Carine Roitfeld
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. — Harold Nicholas
One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. — Clive Barnes
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a… — Rachel Corrie
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. — Karen Kain
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.… — Karen Kain
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a… — Graeme Murphy
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved — Henry Mayhew
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because… — John Guare
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of… — Lynn Swann
I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing… — Unknown Author
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen

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299 authors contributed a total of 467 Ballet Quotes, led by these top contributors: