Dance Quotes - Page 39

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

If you can walk, you can run.

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

I’d just play the music and dance. When I’m dancing, I don’t even notice how I’m doing it.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

From abundance springs satiety.

I'm not looking for guidance.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?