Dancing Quotes - Page 39

• When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Heart, Mind

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• A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Dance, Storm

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust. Ed. with a Translation by Justin O'Brien”

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• O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
  Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

  Walter Scott

  Dance, War, Lord

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 3)

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dance, World, Fairy

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Dance, Healing, People

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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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• Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Spiritual, Expression

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• Do the steps that you've been shown,
  by everyone you've ever known,
  until the dance becomes your very own.

  Jackson Browne

  Dance, Steps, Known

  Song: For A Dancer, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974

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• If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Ballet, Movement

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• I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Tails, Spares

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

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• Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Art, Athlete

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• There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

  Jose Bergamin

  Inspirational, Dance, Rhythm

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• What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

  Ray Bolger

  Dance, Acting, Movement

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• Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

  Deborah Bull

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet

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• Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Dance, Tap Dancing, Waltz

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• But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Wings, Ideas

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• Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

  Diogenes

  Dance, Virtue, Whistling

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Quality, Energy

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• My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Art, Taken

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

  Katherine Dunham

  Dance, People, Made

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• Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

  Duke Ellington

  Dance, Thinking, Play

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• After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Beautiful, Dance, Ballet

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

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• Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Wall, People

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

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