Dance Quotes

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

If you don't do your dance, who will?

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Yoga is a dance within…and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that’s when you dance on the outside.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

I told you to sell it, not give it away.