Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Cris Judd

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

Claude Debussy

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Clive Barnes

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Dustin Diamond

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Anais Nin

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Anita Shreve

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Christopher Marlowe

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Annette Funicello

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Angela Lansbury

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Alvin Ailey

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

Alvin Ailey

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

Alvin Ailey

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Alvin Ailey

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Anne Sexton

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

Anita Brookner

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

Ambrose Bierce

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

We'll have our dance team at some Fort Worth ISD pep rallies in the next week or so. We'll have a good presence in the community.

Li Keqiang

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Alexa Vega

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

Alex Kapranos

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Deborah Cox

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

Deborah Cox

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

Deborah Cox

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

Deborah Cox

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Deborah Cox

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

Dorothy Richardson

Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.