Dance Quotes

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

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.

The only sin is mediocrity.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Do it big, do it right and do it with style.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Dance is music made visible

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

See the music, hear the dance.

The body says what words cannot.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

My motto - sans limites.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

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

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

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

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

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.

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

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

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

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.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

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

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

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.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.