"Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is…" — Ned Rorem
"Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet."
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28 Quotes by Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem has 28 quotes on this site.
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to…
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
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Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
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Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged…
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
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All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
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More Ballet Quotes
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one of 467 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
— Fred Astaire
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
— George Balanchine
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love…
— Jeff Bridges
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
— Deborah Bull
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Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV…
— Meg Cabot
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
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