Just Dance Quotes

• Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Feet, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Men, Thinking

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Dancing, Style

  "Joy Ride" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Communication, Dancing

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• You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational Life, Feet, Intuition

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Children, Kids

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Inspiring, Dance

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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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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• Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Discovery, Dancing

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Dancing, Messengers

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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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• 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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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Heart

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

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• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, God, Philosophy

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• 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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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Witty

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

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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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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 134

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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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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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