Dancer Quotes - Page 37

• Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Silence, Ballet

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• I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Discipline, Goal, Ballet

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

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• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

  Judith Jamison

  People, Giving, Dancing

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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

  Agnes de Mille

  Hypnosis, Self, Giving

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Ballet, Age

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• The greater the fool the better the dancer.

  Theodore Hook

  Dancing, Ballet, Fool

  Theodore Edward Hook, Richard Harris Dalton Barham (1849). “The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life”, p.128

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• EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

  Ben Brantley

  Artist, Band, Singers

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• After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

  John Landis

  Brother, Real, Numbers

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• A dancer's life is all about repetition.

  Twyla Tharp

  Boiled Eggs, Life Is, Repetition

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

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• I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mirrors, White, Manhattan

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

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• Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, Art, Thinking

  "Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint" by Shane Hickey, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Player, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

  Ed Sheeran

  Madagascar, Want, Penguins

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• People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

  Edgar Degas

  Girl, Lying, Clothes

  Edgar Degas, Russell Ash (1992). “Degas' Ballet Dancers”, Universe Pub

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• I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

  Lester Bangs

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer

  Ronnie James Dio

  Answers

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• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Teacher, Art, Father

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’

  Louis Tomlinson

  Daughter, Fun, One Direction

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• The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

  Marion Woodman

  Soul, Connections, Body

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• A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  Fashion, Creativity, Dedication

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• Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Dancing, Doe

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• Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

  Michael Flatley

  Wife, Form, Troupe

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• Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

  Michael Flatley

  Kids, Courses, Dies

  FaceBook post by Michael Flatley from Jun 04, 2013

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