Dance Quotes

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Dance brings out the best in me and makes me feel infinite. It helps me relax and express myself, and it clears my head. Plus, dance keeps me fit!

Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.

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.

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!

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

My muse must come to me on union time.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.