Dance Quotes

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

If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

I like to dance, but not in the air.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

If it's me, it would be a waste not to dance no matter what.

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Even the ears must dance.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Don't be afraid to be amazing.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.