Dancing Quotes - Page 9

• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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

  Bill Irwin

  Dance, Powerful, Ballet

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• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Forgotten Things

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

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• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Looks, Vigor

  "The American Dance" (1935)

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Dance, Art, Night

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• Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

  Igor Youskevitch

  Dance, Expression, Realization

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• Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Dance, Light

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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• How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dance, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.158

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• The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Teacher, Jean Jacques Rousseau

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dance, Book, Writing

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

  Susan Jaffe

  Dance, Cutting, Blood

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• All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

  Luis de la Fuente

  Dance, Expression, Circus

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• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

  David Gere

  Dance, Ballet, Three

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• You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Dance, Love Life

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• Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

  Paula Abdul

  Fitness, Fun, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Jan 10, 2012

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• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Mistake, Reality

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• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Motivational, Dance, Business

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• I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

  Buddy Hackett

  People, Argument, Grudge

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• Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Heart, Soul

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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Toes, Attention

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• Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hands, Together, Twelve

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• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Depth

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• Dancing is my obsession. My life.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Obsession

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• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Heart, Autumn

  "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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