60 Quotes by 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...

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *

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

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.

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

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

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

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

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