Dance Quotes - Page 13

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

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

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

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

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I danced from the moment I could stand.

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.