Dance Quotes

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

I’d just play the music and dance. When I’m dancing, I don’t even notice how I’m doing it.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

When I give, I give myself.

Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

In your light I learn how to love.

We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

If we can think, feel, and move, we can dance.

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.