Dance Quotes - Page 5

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dancing, Autism

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

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Life, Being Yourself, Art

  "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

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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, Education, Learning

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

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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, Dancing, Ballet

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

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Humor, Common Sense, Dancing

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Sadness, Expression, Breathing

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• Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Tunes, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 06, 2015

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• I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

  Fred Astaire

  Mean, Desire, Used

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• It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

  Deborah Bull

  Magic, Spinning, Physics

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• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dancing, Ballet, Perception

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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Moving, Men, Fire

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• Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Strong, Powerful, Artist

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• Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Dancer, Forever

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

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Sleep

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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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, People

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Ballet, Poor

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• To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

  Michael Jackson

  Motivational, Blood, Dancing

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• Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

  Jerome Robbins

  Dancing, Done, Over It

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dream, Art, Communication

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• Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Memories, Dancing

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Giving, Ballet

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Song, Hate

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