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Quotes About Dance

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
~ Ted Shawn
For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
~ Madhuri Dixit
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.
~ Kaskade
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
~ Ben Katchor
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.
~ Rajneesh
That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
~ Neve Campbell
I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.
~ Stephen Boss
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
~ Armstrong Williams
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
~ Lynn Swann
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
~ Oksana Baiul
I intend to dance once with everybody - except the other Joy. I'm going to dance twice with the other Joy. Why? Because being unusually kind to someone will give me a feeling of power.
~ Alasdair Gray
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
~ Albert Einstein
He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth æther to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day.
~ Aleister Crowley
Suonavamo perché l'Oceano è grande, e fa paura, suonavamo perché la gente non sentisse passare il tempo, e si dimenticasse dov'era, e chi era. Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede. Su cui Dio ballava, se solo era negro.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede.
~ Alessandro Baricco
There were women in the sacred dance group, no doubt, and one of these might be taken aside, woman to woman, and asked to help see that he came to no harm. England was full of helpful women, Berthea was convinced: there were legions of them, all anxious to help in some way and many of them feeling quite frustrated that there were not quite enough men—for demographic reasons—in need of their help.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system.
~ Donella H. Meadows
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
~ Doris Humphrey
the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.
~ Dorothy Bryant
I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing...
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
To know a mature woman is to know more than her body. It is to know her dreams and her secrets. It is to know that a dance is a fight, and a fight is a dance, and that passion and compassion beat in the same breast.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
~ Duke Ellington
I can't dance to save my life.
~ Adele