Quotes about Ballet

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

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

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.