10 Quotes by Jacques d'Amboise

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythym of your life.

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didn’t matter after that of before.

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.