GEORGE BALANCHINE QUOTES II

choreographer (1904-1983)


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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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attributed, Forbes, 1992


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Tags: dance


First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

attributed, Little Book of Dance Quotations

Tags: beauty


See the music, hear the dance.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

attributed, Dancing for Balanchine

Tags: dance


I am not a man, but a cloud in trousers.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

"Balanchine Said", The New Yorker, January 26, 2009


In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell.... we can't dance synonyms.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

Life Magazine, June 11, 1965

Tags: ballet


The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

Life Magazine, June 11, 1965

Tags: ballet