Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

George Balanchine's Popular Quotes

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable …

- George Balanchine

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

- George Balanchine

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

- George Balanchine

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

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

- George Balanchine

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

- George Balanchine

Dance is music made visible

- George Balanchine

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

- George Balanchine

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

- George Balanchine