Quotes About Celebration

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.

Next to music beer was best.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

Music and dance are all you need.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.