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Quotes About Dance

I can't dance, remember?" I whispered. "It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you do not know how to do that either.
~ Joe Schreiber
For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
~ Joey Tolbert
Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THE WITCH. [dancing]. O I shall lose my wits, I fear, Do I, again, see Squire Satan here! MEPHISTOPHELES. Woman, the name offends my ear! THE WITCH. Why so? What has it done to you? MEPHISTOPHELES. It has long since to fable-books been banished; But men are none the better for it; true, The wicked one, but not the wicked ones, has vanished.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.
~ Allison Holker
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
~ Arthur Symons
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
It's better to dance than to march through life.
~ Yoko Ono
I like the night life, I like to boogy.
~ Greg Proops
Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.
~ Jackie French
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
~ Chris Cleave
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
~ Deborah Bull
Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
~ Fred Astaire
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
~ Adam Shankman
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
~ John Guare
You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.
~ Lady Gaga
Dance is movement, and movement is life.
~ Ludmilla Chiriaeff
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
~ Martha Graham
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.
~ Michael Jackson
When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
~ Rumi
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
~ Sharon Olds
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
~ Tony Robbins
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
~ Baker Brownell