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Quotes About Dance

Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership
~ George Clinton
Ain't nothin' but a party!
~ George Clinton
Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come
~ Ilona Andrews
Man can't handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don't think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they deal with it in one of three ways. ... Faced with chaos you will either ignore it, dance around it, or you will go mad.
~ Ilona Andrews
Wind mages. They're all fancy dancing until you drop something heavy on them.
~ Ilona Andrews
Were they waltzing, at that fleeting moment which the camera seized and tossed on into the future? Her feet seem scarcely to touch the dance floor.
~ Iris Murdoch
You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea
~ Irving Berlin
The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.
~ Isabel Allende
But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.
~ Isabel Allende
Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.
~ Isabel Allende
You get three Venezuelans together and one will play the drums or the guitar and the other two will dance; there is no ill that can resist that treatment. Our parties, in contrast, seem like funerals: the men gather in a corner to talk business and the women die of boredom. Only the young dance, seduced by North American music, but as soon as they marry they turn solemn like their parents.
~ Isabel Allende
Baila, baila, Zarité, porque esclavo que baila es libre… mientras baila
~ Isabel Allende
Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.
~ Luka Sulic
I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.
~ John Darnielle
My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
~ Bindi Irwin
Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo.
~ Bindi Irwin
The body says what words cannot.
~ Martha Graham
If you can walk, you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~ Thomas Carlyle
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
~ Lord Byron
Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
~ John Milton
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
~ Bible
I can't dance. If I try, I'll trip onstage.
~ Dua Lipa
I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.
~ Savion Glover
New Banger' is a statement, but it is more about giving the DJs something for the clubs. I think it should have a lot of club longevity as a tune.
~ Kano