Dance Quotes

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

. . . And some people sing and dance.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

Nobody is born a dancer.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

Let's face the music and dance.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

Watching my four year old daughter dance I cannot break free of her.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs. They come up to you and say "You gotta dance! you gotta dance!" And then I dance, and they're like, "Not like that!"

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.