"What are you waiting for? What are you……" — George Balanchine
"What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is."
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George Balanchine
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32 Quotes by George Balanchine
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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One is born to be a great dancer.
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
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We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that…
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
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I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
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They are poets of gesture.
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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
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I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the…
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with…
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See the music, hear the dance.
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Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are…
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