Dancer Quotes - Page 6

• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

  Paul Valery

  Reality, Hybridity, Calculators

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• Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

  Anna Neagle

  Jobs, Long, People

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• There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Body

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

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• Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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  Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

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

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• I dance with the dancers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance

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

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• There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Mean, Thinking

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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

  Dance, Dancing, Gestures

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

  Doris Humphrey

  Inspirational, Dance, Simple

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• People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

  Steve Marriott

  Ideas, Feet, Rocks

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Discipline, Dancing

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• Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

  Wendy Buonaventura

  Dancing, Great Dance, Just Dance

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Fear, Philosophy

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• If you can walk, you can run.

  Publilius Syrus

  Music, Dance, Running

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• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Dance, Flower, Hair

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• Sing like no one is listening.
  Love like you’ve never been hurt.
  Dance like nobody’s watching,
  and live like it’s heaven on earth.

  Susanna Clarke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dance, Dancing, Cosmos

  "Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation".

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• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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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

  Dance, Dancing, Done

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