Dance Quotes - Page 37

• I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Song, Powerful

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• I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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• 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.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Song, Long

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• Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

  Donna Shalala

  Inspirational, Fun, Party

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• No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Inspirational, Dream, Cutting

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• I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

  Emily Blunt

  Inspirational, Home, Eye

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• See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

  Etta James

  Inspirational, People, Theatre

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

  George Michael

  Inspirational, Grateful, Gay

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• I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

  Gwen Stefani

  Inspiration, Long, Doubt

  "No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal on the Band's First New Album in Eleven Years". Interview with Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  Hank Azaria

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Crafts

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• Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Children, Drama

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspirational, New York, Army

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

  Jeff Daniels

  Inspirational, Going Away, Trying

  "Jeff Daniels: Anchoring The Cast Of "The Newsroom". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2012.

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• I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Inspirational, Wanted

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• When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

  Jude Law

  Inspirational, Expression, People

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• My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

  Julianne Hough

  Inspirational, Stars, Boys

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• The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Community, Movement

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• A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Feelings, Gathering

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Years, Dancing, Quality

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• At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

  Jamake Highwater

  Lying, Mean, Emotional

  "Dance: Rituals of Experience".

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• The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Dancing, Vision

  Jamake Highwater (1978). “Dance: rituals of experience”

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• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Dancing, Conscious

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• Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

  Jamake Highwater

  Gay, Doors, Europe

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA

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• White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Religious, White, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

  Jamake Highwater

  Religious, Art, Expression

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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