Quotes about dance
dance attitude self-esteem
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Margot Fonteyn
dance art people
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn
dancer frustrated bits
I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me. Naomi Watts
dancer actors born
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. Mithun Chakraborty
dance dancing flawless
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. Margaret Atwood
dance party men
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights. Marcus Tullius Cicero
dance dancing sober
No sober person dances. Marcus Tullius Cicero
dancer felt
Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself. Margaret Cho
dancer acting combination
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting. Patricia Velasquez
dance dancing come-up
Come up and see me sometime. Mae West
dance sports baseball
He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly. Liza Minnelli
dance feet bleeding
Bleeding feet will bond us. Liza Minnelli
dance frustration men
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn. Michael Jackson
dance thinking dancing
I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it. Michael Jackson
dance dancing sacred
On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists ! Michael Jackson
dance eye dancing
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. Michael Jackson
dance giving goal
My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. Michael Jackson
dance song stars
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance. Michael Jackson
dancer hips gymnast
If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out. Mia Hamm
dance joy motto
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. Mark Twain
dance ballet-class dancing
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Mary Schmich
dance dancing people
I want people to look like people when they're dancing. Mark Morris
dancer
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire. P. G. Wodehouse
dance voice dancing
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing. Ovid
dance memories essence
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by. Martha Graham
dance emotional discipline
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers. Martha Graham
dance fall dancing
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing. Martha Graham
dance believe practice
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 healing ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Martha Graham
dance flower tree
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. Martha Graham
dance care done
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! Martha Graham
dance heart fever
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body. Martha Graham
dance hard-work people
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with. Martha Graham