The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

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.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.