Dance Quotes - Page 8

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Yoga is a dance within…and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that’s when you dance on the outside.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.

The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.