Dance Quotes - Page 6

• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Mean, Creativity

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• I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

  George C. Wolfe

  Dancing, Madness, Dancer

  George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

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• Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Appreciation, Art, Nature

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• A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

  Alicia Alonso

  Art, Learning, Museums

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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Witty, Funny Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sexy, Funny Sex, Expression

  In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962

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• It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

  Martha Graham

  Laughter, Fun, Dancing

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• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Pain, Light, Dancing

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• No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Wisdom, Artist

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Change, Music, Art

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• I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

  Kesha

  Inspirational, Girly, Fun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Idols

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• Dancing is a sweat job.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Jobs, Sweat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

  Martha Graham

  Discovery, Dancing, Dancer

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

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Stars, Ballet Class

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Some things were worth the dance with danger.

  Nalini Singh

  Danger

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.153, Penguin

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• Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

  Tad Williams

  Inspirational, Dancing, Talent

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• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Dancing, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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

  Judith Jamison

  Giving, People, Ballet

  womenSports magazine, September 1975.

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• Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, God, Mistake

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• Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Cheer Up

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Moving Forward, Space, Dancing

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Children, Kids, Dancing

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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  The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Love Yourself, Acceptance

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Heart, Dancing, Mind

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