Dance Quotes - Page 22

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  Vaughn Monroe

  Hair, Cake, People

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• Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Country, Practice, Tennessee

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• Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

  Vince Young

  Eye, Men, Practice

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• Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

  Robert Hayden

  Voice, Spokes, Shore

  Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press

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• I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

  Mark Morris

  People, Dancing, Looks

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• The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Inspirational, Alive, Sometimes

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• If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

  Vanna Bonta

  Mirrors, Giving, Spotlight

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• Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

  Theophilus London

  Song, Negative

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• The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

  Evan Esar

  Firsts, Modern, Modern Dance

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• Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

  Evan Esar

  Girl, Wells, Intermission

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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Dancing, Conversation

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Beats

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.46, Heinemann

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• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Girl, Dancing, Important

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• All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

  John Updike

  Dancing, Devil, Standing

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.366, Random House

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• Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Movement, Stones

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• One you've danced, you always dance.

  Judith Jamison

  Essence, December 1988.

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• A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

  Gary Shapiro

  Amusement, Parks, Amusement Parks

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• Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  Agnes de Mille

  Girl, Running, Boys

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Ideas, Space, Tea

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

  Twyla Tharp

  Workout, Morning, Coffee

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

  Twyla Tharp

  Challenges, Culture, Stereotype

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Dancing, Movement

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Stepchild

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

  Martha Graham

  Wings, Body, Remember

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• I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

  Martha Graham

  Dancer, Chosen

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