Dance Quotes - Page 24

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

I often work by avoidance.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

All the world's a stage.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Comparisons are odious.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.