Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques d'Amboise

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American dancer Jacques d'Amboise.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Jacques d'Amboise was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and educator. He joined the New York City Ballet in 1949 and was named principal dancer in 1953, and throughout his time with the company he danced 24 roles for George Balanchine. He also made film appearances, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel. He choreographed 17 ballets for the New York City Ballet and retired from performing in 1984.

American - Dancer | Born: July 28, 1934

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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.

Jacques d'Amboise

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.

Jacques d'Amboise

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Jacques d'Amboise

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Jacques d'Amboise

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

Jacques d'Amboise

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

Jacques d'Amboise

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Jacques d'Amboise

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Jacques d'Amboise

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.

Jacques d'Amboise

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

Jacques d'Amboise

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

Jacques d'Amboise

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.

Jacques d'Amboise

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques d'Amboise

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