Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Farrell

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Susannah McCorkle

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

Susanna Hoffs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Tara Reid

Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast, .. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris (Hilton) is definitely one of those people.

Tara Reid

The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

Tom Vilsack

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

Tad Williams

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible dancer.

Rumi

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Rumi

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

Rumi

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

Rumi

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Rumi

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Rumi

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Shirley MacLaine

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Shirley MacLaine

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley MacLaine

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Shirley MacLaine

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley MacLaine

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shakira

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Rachel Stevens

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Lincoln Kirstein

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

Theophilus London

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.