Dance Quotes - Page 9

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

The more you give, the more you live.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.