Dancer Quotes - Page 4

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

William Kempe

Eight, Years, Ballet

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That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.

Cesar Romero

Country, Stars, Men

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Dave Barry

Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

James Brown

Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Agnes de Mille

Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

Girl, Dance, Men

Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)

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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance, God, Philosophy

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The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

Carlo Blasis

Dance, Art, Dancing

"The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beautiful, Dance, Art

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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, Dance, Mean

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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Isadora Duncan

Music, Dance, Ballet Class

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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Martha Graham

Inspirational, Dance, Heart

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

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

Alarmel Valli

Dance, Wine, Dancing

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

Judith Jamison

Dance, Giving, People

womenSports magazine, September 1975.

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Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

Jacques d'Amboise

Dance, Breathing, Dancing

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The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Curt Sachs

Dance, Mother, Art

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Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

Martha Graham

Dance, Sleep, Frustration

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

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Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Anna Pavlova

Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Bill Irwin

Dance, Powerful, Dancing

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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

Dance, Wall, Museums

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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Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

La Meri

Inspirational, Dance, Expression

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I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Martha Graham

Dance, Believe, Practice

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

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