Dancing Quotes - Page 12

• To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

  Jim Crace

  Novelists, Asking, Cooks

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• Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

  May Swenson

  Wind, Earth, Rooms

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America

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• Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there is all the difference in the world. It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns - they come to embody your defences against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom; and more than that - of innocence and of openness to the world.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Powerful, Mean, Differences

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2012). “A Brief History of Nakedness”, p.48, Reaktion Books

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• Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, People, Soul

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Rewards

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dancing is like life. The lessons of one are the lessons of the other.

  Savion Glover

  Lessons

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• I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

  Twyla Tharp

  Believe, Movement, Common

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Singing, Painting

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• So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously, deliberately, do whatsoever you want to do. Never hide behind masks. If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability. Then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Names, Ideas

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• I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable.

  Colin Callender

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: deadline.com

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• Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!

  Patricia Wright

  Beautiful, Moving, Mean

  "Interview: “Island Of Lemurs” Filmmakers". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. April 5, 2014.

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• I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

  Michael K. Williams

  Moving, Opportunity, Missing

  Source: collider.com

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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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• My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts it's about taking people on a journey, being able to involve me completely-whether you're singing a song, whether it's in the theater, whether you're dancing-if you can make me forget I'm sitting in a seat, that's my definition of genius.

  Russell Crowe

  Song, Art, Journey

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Cedars, Afternoon

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• From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

  Rita Hayworth

  Heart, Twelve, Bread

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• Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.

  Rajneesh

  Country, Rain, Flower

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• Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

  Rumi

  Ears, Daylight, Particles

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• Running with dogs is like dancing with winter

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Dog, Winter

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• Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

  Merce Cunningham

  Spiritual, Exercise, Form

  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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• Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

  Chingy

  Song, Albums, Ifs

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• When we were younger, my cousins used to jump in front of cars with masks on and start dancing really funny or making funny moves and the people in the cars would start laughing.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Cousin, Moving, People

  "PBC fighters share spooktacular Halloween memories". PBC interview, www.premierboxingchampions.com. October 30, 2015.

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• Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Thinking, Jamaica

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• I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

  Morgan Freeman

  Gay, Air, Guy

  "'Dark Knight Rises' Star Morgan Freeman Sounds Off on Pot Legalization, Gay Marriage" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2012.

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