Top 100 Can't Dance Quotes
#1. I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'
Harvey Pekar
#2. So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
Hermann Hesse
#5. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
Saul Williams
#6. You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same time. Unless there's an eclipse.
Neha Yazmin
#7. I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile.
Gary Gulman
#8. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman
#9. In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine
#10. If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.
Emma Goldman
#11. I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
Liam Gallagher
#12. See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.
Etta James
#13. In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
Lee Hall
#14. Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.
"I can't dance like Cassidy," she says.
"Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.
Tim Tharp
#16. 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
#18. I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.
Anton Du Beke
#20. If a chick can't dance, she can't ride dick, simple as that ...
J.M. August
#21. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
#22. I can't dance to save my life.
Adele
#23. Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.
John Fogerty
#24. If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!
Martha Graham
#25. I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.
John Higgins
#27. I learned a lot from Rudimental's live set. It's all about good feelings, good vibes and a good time, and that's what I want from my shows. I like big, bolshy performances, like Beyonce. I can't dance like her, though.
Ella Eyre
#28. When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
Dick Van Dyke
#29. We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.
Louis Tomlinson
#30. Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
Ninette De Valois
#31. That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
Adam Jones
#33. You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
Rex Stout
#34. A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.
Madhuri Dixit
#35. Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.
Evan Esar
#36. I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.
Jack Dempsey
#37. As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.
Tina Turner
#38. Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius
#39. Just because a flame will burn out, doesn't mean that it can't dance in the dark.
Kelli Crockett
#40. I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.
Kesha
#41. I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.
Briana Evigan
#42. So," Herbalist said with a smile, "you can't dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.
Lois Lowry
#43. You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.
Yoko Ono
#44. For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.
Shawn Amos
#48. I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.
Hope Solo
#49. I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.
Miranda Hart
#50. When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.
Alexandra Daddario
#51. I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
Annie Dillard
#52. Why?"
Kieran grinned. "'Cause you can't dance, it's too wet to plow, and it's a little windy to be stacking chickens.
Jesse Hajicek
#53. I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.
Gene Krupa
#54. You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?'
Holly Madison
#55. I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.
Tracy McGrady
#56. As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.
Stephen Boss
#57. I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.
Donnie Yen
#58. I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
Harmony Korine
#59. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert
#60. It's hard to move on if you don't forgive," he said. "It's like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.
Diane Chamberlain
#61. I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
Laura Bell Bundy
#62. Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
Twyla Tharp
#63. Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.
Max Brooks
#64. With my heart thumping, I froze up. I didn't dance. I was born with two left feet and they only worked together in the saddle. "Come on," Casey urged and grabbed my hand. "I wore my steel-toe boots. You can stand on my feet for all I care.
Brittney Joy
#65. I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
Adam Garcia
#66. Communication is not only about words and numbers. Some thoughts can't be properly expressed in these ways at all. We also think in sounds and images, in movement and gesture, which gives rise to our capacities for music, visual arts, dance, and theater in all their variations.
Ken Robinson
#67. I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.
Brian Billick
#68. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.
Chelsey Philpot
#69. If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin
#70. I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.
Sinead O'Connor
#71. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass
#72. I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.
Michael Flatley
#73. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
#74. It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take her to dance lessons because I love her." I can make time to blow bubbles on the back porch. It doesn't cause your man card to be revoked.
Dan Alatorre
#75. Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
Marianne Williamson
#76. Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
Jackie French
#77. Want to dance?" He scooped me into his arms before I could reply. "We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish."
"You don't have to. But if I step on your feet too many times you can feel free.
Amy Tintera
#78. I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
Robert Gottlieb
#79. I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.
Bill Frisell
#80. I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.
Lauren Conrad
#81. I can't belly dance.'
Yes, you can. It's in your fi
'
Will you stop reading my goddamn file!
Jennifer Rardin
#82. You are my first best friend, my first crush, my first kiss, my first dance partner, and my first love. Please don't be my first heartbreak. I want you to be my first everything, Josh. Please, don't let it be too late. Please, let me love you because I don't think I can stop even if you tell me too.
Andrea Michelle
#83. Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Mitch Albom
#84. All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.
Afrika Bambaataa
#85. You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.
Josh Peck
#86. Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
Jack Kerouac
#87. When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh it off.
Or you can own it, and next time show everyone how great you are. While silencing your critiques.
Personally speaking... I don't help no one make a fool out of you.
Vincent Edwards
#88. Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
Rachel Stevens
#89. Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.
Lindsey Stirling
#90. You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
Wale
#91. You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.
Yoko Ono
#92. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.
Neil Diamond
#93. Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.
Tom Hiddleston
#94. Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.
David Bonderman
#95. The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
Ice-T
#96. Helen stood up., "Accept that the universe is an apparently random dance. There may be a pattern to it-I think there probably is-but we can't see it from where we are.You have to let the dance happen. You'll love some of it and hate some it.
Amanda Cockrell
#97. I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
Dick Van Dyke
#98. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.
Dan Millman
#99. There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.
Thom Yorke
#100. Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.
Peter Doig
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