Curt Sachs Quotes

#1. The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

Curt Sachs

#2. Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

Curt Sachs

#3. Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

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#4. The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

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#5. The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

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#6. It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

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#7. The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

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#8. Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity.

Stephen Covey

#10. I don't train to be in a gunfight; I'd much rather be in a shooting - there's a difference. A gunfight means he's shooting back at me. In a shooting, I'm doing all the work.

Jamie Smith

#11. The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

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#12. If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

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#13. Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

Chris Pavone

#14. Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream.

Joseph Campbell

#15. My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Richard M. Rorty

#16. Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Greg Bryk

#17. A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

Curt Sachs

#18. In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

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#19. The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

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#20. Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

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#21. In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

Milton Friedman

#22. What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Ilsa J. Bick

#23. In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia ... All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

Curt Sachs

#24. Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you?

Helen Salter

#25. Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

Curt Sachs

#26. Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

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#27. The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

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#28. The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

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#29. Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

George Eliot

#30. Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

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#31. The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

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#32. If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

Chuck Norris

#33. He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions

James Hilton

#34. You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Rafael Palmeiro

#35. The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

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#36. A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

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#37. Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

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#38. In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them.

Tom Benson