Dance Quotes - Page 31

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations. Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

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

A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.

It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.