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Quotes About Dance

Dance is a tyranny of the old over the young, the ugly over the beautiful, those who no longer can over those who can.
~ Edward Stewart
Let me sometimes dance With you, Or climb Or stand perchance In ecstasy, Fixed and free In a rhyme, As poets do.
~ Edward Thomas
and there those who knew how to dance danced and those who didn't learned.
~ Elena Ferrante
La prima volta che ho visto Enzo è stato a una festa da ballo e abbiamo ballato questo ballo qui" la sentii dire. "Quanto tempo fa?" "Questo 23 maggio diciassette anni." ââ'¬Å"È passato molto tempo." "Non è passato nemmeno un minuto.
~ Elena Ferrante
Tu corazón va más deprisa que el vals.
~ Elena Garro
But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned—or everything is—because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.
~ Anthony Powell
Llévame bailando a través de las cortinas que nuestros besos han desgastado. Ahora levanta una tienda de refugio aunque cada hilo este desgastado. Llévame bailando hasta el fin del amor. Llévame bailando hasta tu belleza con un violín ardiente.
~ Antonia Michaelis
Dance me through th curtains that our kisses have out worm. Raise a ent of shelter now, though every thread is torn. Dance me to the end of love. Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
~ Antonia Michaelis
But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.
~ Antonio Machado
He who dances on his wedding day has lost all his senses.
~ Anuj Somany
Romancing is nothing but a man ridiculously dancing only to the tune of a self-loving woman
~ Anuj Somany
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
~ Archie Shepp
Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she'd take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.
~ Ari Berk
Dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement.
~ Aristotle
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
~ Arna Bontemps
Obviously, I don't really think my version of a Cha-Cha would actually qualify for a Cha-Cha.
~ Chrishell Stause
I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.
~ Casey Nicholaw
I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.'
~ Teri Garr
I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'
~ Kenny Smith
My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.
~ Julia Stiles
I used to be a really great dancer. I used to do it quite a lot and then I stopped. Now my body has forgotten all that training.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.
~ Twyla Tharp
What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.
~ Dianna Agron
I was fascinated by the powerful yet precise dance performances of K-pop. I loved Rain and 2NE1.
~ Momo Hirai