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Quotes About Dancers

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
~ Terry Riley
Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.
~ Sylvie Guillem
But was that why Negroes were poor, because they were dancers, jazzers, clowns? . . . The other way round would be better: dancers because of their poverty; singers because they suffered; laughing all the time because they must forget.... It's more like that, thought Sandy.
~ Langston Hughes
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
~ Graeme Murphy
You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang
~ James Patterson
you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!
~ James Patterson
You… are… a… fridge… with… wings," Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. "We… are… ballet… dancers.
~ James Patterson
Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.
~ Shaan
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.
~ Nelly Mazloum
My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.
~ Paula Abdul
Sometimes learning simple little steps kind of gives couples a pattern that they can follow, and they feel a bit more confident. I literally melt every time I help a couple with their first dance, and they're not dancers.
~ Jenna Johnson
It doesn't bother me or Curtis being questioned about our sexuality and it probably happens more because we're dancers. That stereotype is disappearing, but people always made ignorant, short-sighted comments when we were growing up.
~ A. J. Pritchard
With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.
~ Matthew Bourne
I tell you this, as war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be? You ain't nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party? she asked. Not tonight, Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory? I asked him. Out the window.
~ Janet Evanovich
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.
~ George Balanchine
Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.
~ Grover Dale
Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour performance. Dancers put their bodies through incredible strain.
~ Darcey Bussell
Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
~ Bruce Forsyth
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
~ Dita Von Teese
Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.
~ Ann Reinking
Suddenly a dog bayed in the wood, and the dancers stopped, and going up two by two, knelt down, and kissed the man's hands. As they did so, a little smile touched his proud lips, as a bird's wing touches the water and makes it laugh. But there was disdain in it.
~ Oscar Wilde
The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.
~ Christine Wiltz