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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.
Ninette de Valois
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Martha Graham
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
George Balanchine
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The unique must be fulfilled.
Martha Graham
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
Agnes de Mille
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Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
Pina Bausch
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The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
Rudolf Nureyev
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
Martha Graham
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I am a cloud - in trousers.
George Balanchine
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Usually, English personalities are difficult they dont take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Agnes de Mille
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
Martha Graham
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
Martha Graham
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
Agnes de Mille
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I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
Martha Graham
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.
George Balanchine
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Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.
Natalia Makarova
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I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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Discipline is liberation.
Martha Graham
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I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.
George Balanchine
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
Martha Graham
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I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.
Rudolf Nureyev
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