Dance Quotes - Page 33

Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.