Best Quotes by George Balanchine (Top 10)
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance
George Balanchine
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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 no other times. There is only now. Right now.
George Balanchine
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *
George Balanchine
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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
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 gardener.
George Balanchine
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In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
George Balanchine
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What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.
George Balanchine
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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
George Balanchine
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Dance is music made visible
George Balanchine
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See the music, hear the dance.
George Balanchine
More George Balanchine Quotes
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God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
George Balanchine
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine