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Quotes About Dance

Ce qu'une femme a fait, une femme peut le refaire. Et continue a imaginer ce qui est devant toi : amis, travail, echanges interessants, rires. Et pourquoi pas une serie d'aventures empreintes d'une certaine noblesse ? il n'est pas impossible qu'on te demande d'entrer dans la danse.
~ Dorothy Parker
He felt the way he imagined an angel must feel doing its celebrated dance on the head of a pin while being counted by philosophers
~ Douglas Adams
Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.
~ Douglas Coupland
If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
~ Aesop
He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony
~ African Proverb
Most peculiar, the way people danced nowadays. Flinging themselves about, seeming quite contorted. Oh well, young people must enjoy—
~ Agatha Christie
And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence.
~ Agatha Christie
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes de Mille
Dance in the body you have.
~ Agnes de Mille
There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Come and meetThose dancing feetOn the avenueI'm taking you to,Forty-second Street.
~ Al Dubin
Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me
~ Al Dubin
I could have danced all night!
~ Alan Jay Lerner
We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.
~ Alan Watts
It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music, not all parts of your anatomy stop at the same time.
~ Alastair Macaulay
I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.
~ Rob Kardashian
I want to create a platform where dancers can be creative away from their day jobs. I want them to be able to express their joy, their personalities and to have fun.
~ Sergei Polunin
Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.
~ Ann Reinking
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.
~ Robert Lepage
But I must tell you that dancing to 'Aapke Aa Jaane Se' from 'Khudgarz' was phenomenal.
~ Neelam Kothari
People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
~ Kurt Elling
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
~ Kacy Hill
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov