Quotes about dance and dancing




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"I just put my feet in the air and move them around."

Astaire, Fred on dance and dancing
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"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."

Baryshnikov, Mikhail on dance and dancing    Share

"To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware."

Byrne, David on dance and dancing    Share

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."

Carroll, Lewis on dance and dancing    Share

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

Chesterfield, Lord on dance and dancing    Share

"The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."

Cleaver, Eldridge on dance and dancing    Share

"How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on dance and dancing    Share

"The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche."

Duncan, Isadora on dance and dancing    Share

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."

Duncan, Isadora on dance and dancing    Share

"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."

Ellis, Havelock on dance and dancing
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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom."

Fielding, Henry on dance and dancing    Share

"And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

Gibran, Kahlil on dance and dancing
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion."

Graham, Martha on dance and dancing
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"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance."

Graham, Martha on dance and dancing    Share

"Nothing is more revealing than movement."

Graham, Martha on dance and dancing    Share

"And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."

Gregory, Dick on dance and dancing
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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."

Morley, Christopher on dance and dancing
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing    Share

"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite."

Pugh, Marshall on dance and dancing    Share

"[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Shaw, George Bernard on dance and dancing
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"On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined."

Twain, Mark on dance and dancing
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."

Thaves, Bob on dance and dancing
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