Inspirational Dance Quotes - Page 4

• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Moving, Thinking

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• Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  Voltaire

  Dance, Reading, Two

  "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

  George C. Wolfe

  Dance, Dancing, Madness

  George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

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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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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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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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• Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Dancing, Messengers

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• The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dance, Love Yourself

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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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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• Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

  Louis Horst

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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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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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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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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  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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