Dance Quotes - Page 8

• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Song, Children

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• Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

  Rajneesh

  Love, Inspirational, Elation

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Thinking, Feelings

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• It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing, People, Mind

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.151, Wild Jot Press

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• I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

  Angela Lansbury

  Stars, Dancing, Want

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

  Paul Valery

  Metamorphosis, Realising, Pure

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• I explained it when I danced it.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dancing

  "Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous?" by Lyndsey Winship, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I dance with the dancers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dancer

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Whitman: Poems”, p.9, Everyman's Library

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• The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

  George Balanchine

  Mirrors, Dancing, Just Dance

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• You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

  Rumi

  Lost Love, Sufi, Chests

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• All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

  Saint Augustine

  Dancing, Gestures, Pleasure

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

  August Bournonville

  Law, Taste, Pleasure

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Looks, Bigs

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• Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

  Doris Humphrey

  Moving, Men, Expression

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• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Learning, Two

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Work, Advice, Worth Waiting For

  What's Wrong with theWorld pt. 4, ch. 14 (1910)

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Being Yourself

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

  Merce Cunningham

  Wall, Museums, Giving

  Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”

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• Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Inspirational, Love Is, Dancing

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• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Injury, Smarter

  "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.

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• Nobody is born a dancer.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dancer, Born

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• The body is a sacred garment.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Health, Body

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Dream, Heart

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• I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Funny Things, Mad

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

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