Ballet Dance Quotes - Page 2

• Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  Voltaire

  Dance, Reading, Two

  "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, God, Philosophy

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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  The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

  Dave Barry

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

  Doris Humphrey

  Inspirational, Dance, Simple

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• Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Skills, Ballet, Intellectual

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh (1996). “Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics”, p.53, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Breathing, Dancing

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