Dance Quotes

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind.

I'd rather walk in the dark with Jesus than to dance in the light on my own

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

The eyes, hands and body movements are important to make the dance sexier.

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

Work like you don't need the money.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

The way people move is their autobiography in motion.