top of page
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Ballet quotes

"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."

"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."

"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."

"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
Explore more quotes by Ritchie Blackmore

"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."

"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."

"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count."
bottom of page