Quotes About Dance

Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high h

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.

I always knew I wanted to dance and when I was eight, I started ballet lessons at a church hall. They all wore pink ballet shoes but I wore green, as they were cheap, and I remember everyone staring at me.

I've been invited to do 'Dancing With the Stars' three times, but Lifetime said no.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.

Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy.

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I looked at it for what it really was.

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

'Makossa' is from Africa, and it means 'dance.' It's also the name for this type of music. In my song, I decided to mix in some Jamaican sounds, like the steel drums.

In 'Krishna,' the movements mostly stem from traditional dances of diverse cultures but there is some use of multimedia that completes the production and nudges the audience into the right ethos.

I have trained for 30 years in Indian classical dance and there is nothing more beautiful in my eyes than stepping out of the box.