Classical Dance Quotes

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Nita Ambani

Philosophy, Dancing, Profound

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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 dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

Love, Dance, Art

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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Constanze Mozart

Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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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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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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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

Dance, Dancing, Ballet

Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

Inspirational, Dance, Art

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I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Deborah Bull

Dance, Modern, Enjoy

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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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... enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

Karma, Dance, Dancing

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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Judith Jamison

Dance, Giving, People

womenSports magazine, September 1975.

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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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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Change, Dance

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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Martha Graham

Inspirational, Dance, Heart

Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Erik Bruhn

Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance, God, Philosophy

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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Martha Graham

Life, Dance, Education

Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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

Alvin Ailey

Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

Love, Inspirational, Life

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Inspiring, Dance

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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