Dance Quotes - Page 29

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Dancing is as old as love.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Regular temple attendance is one of the simplest ways you can bless those who are waiting in the spirit world. If you live near a temple, partake of the opportunity to go often and regularly.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.