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George Balanchine Quotes & Sayings

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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself. — George Balanchine

My muse must come to me on union time. — George Balanchine

I am a cloud - in trousers. — George Balanchine

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. — George Balanchine

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. — George Balanchine

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do. — George Balanchine

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. — 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

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine

The woman's function is to fascinate men. — George Balanchine

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard — 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

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet. — George Balanchine

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

They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting. — George Balanchine

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first. — George Balanchine

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

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

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. — 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

One is born to be a great dancer. — George Balanchine

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

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets. — Robert Gottlieb

See the music, hear the dance. — George Balanchine

I have no literary approach - except to literature. — George Balanchine

Dance is music made visible — George Balanchine