Dance Quotes - Page 7

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

If you don't do your dance, who will?

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.