Top 100 Quotes About Dance
#1. Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.
Rumi
#2. The storms inside uncoil
into sky held calm by far seeing eyes
Memories dressed in the translucent
trickery of the mind,
so as to wear life upon themselves,
give up their tired dance and run
into free frequency
Tamara Rendell
#3. The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
Flavor Flav
#4. I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
Rory Bremner
#5. When the music and dance create with accord ... their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.
Jean-Georges Noverre
#7. I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.
Dean Cain
#8. I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!
Chris Martin
#9. There are some things, like your eighth grade boyfriend kissing some other girl at a middle school dance, that are easy to forgive. And there are some things that are just unforgivable.
Jennifer Mathieu
#10. I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler
#11. He moved in a dance with the cosmos, practicing the steps that would take him to the places he wanted to see. As he circled, he gained wisdom and became truly more than he'd been.
Colleen Houck
#12. Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest
Alfred De Vigny
#13. In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Debbie Allen
#14. I never thought of myself in comedy at all ... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
Imogene Coca
#15. I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Danny Boyle
#16. I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
Shawn Mendes
#17. To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.
Sonia Faleiro
#18. I dance to the steps of life, Each step bringing, A new beginning, To the brightness of my day!
Linda J. Wolff
#19. My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.
Le1f
#20. We are FREE, not bound like a Tree. We can Move, we can Dance ... we can take a Chance! -RVM
R.v.m.
#21. A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
Candace Bushnell
#22. I love to sing, dance, and act so I guess I am one! Although I definitely think that I have tons to work on and I hope to grow as a performer everyday.
Megan Lee
#23. In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Zainab Salbi
#24. The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.
Roberto Bolano
#25. I do not think you can get rid of the fear ... but you can dance with it.
Seth Godin
#26. I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
Irvine Welsh
#27. I play Sun-Hi, a Korean-American girl who is a social media expert and dreams of becoming a worldwide star. Being on Make It Pop is so much fun because we get to sing dance and act all in one production which is a dream come true! Working with the cast and crew is also a blast!
Megan Lee
#28. I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party ... I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.
Donna Karan
#29. I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.
Muhammad Ali
#30. It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.
Tinashe
#31. Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.
Sonu Nigam
#32. I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.
Kyle Massey
#33. I don't want to hide. I want to slow dance with you again. I want to dance with you forever.
Sarah Black
#34. Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
Frank Herbert
#35. When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.
Howard Fast
#36. Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!
Joe Lovano
#37. You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
Martha Graham
#38. He held her gaze as he lowered his head toward her. He didn't kiss her though
just leaned kissably close and asked, Will you let me take you in my arms ... for a dance, Leslie?
Melissa Marr
#39. Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
Homer
#40. Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
Zach Woods
#41. Imagination belongs to hope. It's the creative dance of possibility.
Sharon Weil
#42. Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
Winston Graham
#43. My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didn't dance.
Maddie Ziegler
#44. I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
FKA Twigs
#45. The only time I've ever danced every day was during 'Dancing with the Stars' and in the two-week rehearsal for 'Dirty Dancing,' and that was only to do a particular dance.
Jennifer Grey
#46. If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing ... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.
Vivian Balakrishnan
#47. On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.
John O'Donohue
#51. Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.
Jack Canfield
#52. When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams
#53. Technically, the dance worked best when done naked, but I didn't feel like prancing in the nude into Morrigan Hound's arms. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see me.
Ilona Andrews
#54. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen
#57. And I felt happy inside these songs ( ... ) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and solu ( ... ), where they dance in joy ...
Milan Kundera
#58. I love exercise, but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates, and taking dance lessons.
Twiggy
#59. Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#60. I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.
Gillian Jacobs
#61. We all have our demons, and every once in a while, we have to dance with them, embrace them.
Autumn Grey
#62. You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#63. I'd never thought of aqua as a particular offensive color before, but looking at those bedspreads, I knew that next school year I was totally banning anything even approaching that shade from any school dance decorations. I'd never be able to look at it again without wanting to slit my own throat.
Rachel Hawkins
#64. Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
James Cagney
#65. Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.
Marty Rubin
#66. I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.
William Beckett
#67. Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
Avicii
#68. She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I'd rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move.
A.F. Stewart
#69. You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just
clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich."
"That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."
Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)
P.C. Cast
#70. I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
Groucho Marx
#71. I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away.
Philip Catshill
#73. I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around.
Richard Rodriguez
#74. Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.
Tad Williams
#75. Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.
Santosh Kalwar
#76. I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.
Joan Chen
#77. If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude Stein
#78. An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.
Jennifer Dunning
#80. I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
Kimberly Elise
#81. I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Dick Van Dyke
#82. I honestly produce for myself, not for other people and everyone who supports me I'm really, really, really am thankful for the fact they are supporting me. However, in dance music, you need to switch it up sometimes.
Nicky Romero
#83. 'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Mithun Chakraborty
#84. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. 15
Stephen King
#85. Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.
Jerome Robbins
#86. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
Edith Sitwell
#87. I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground the way you did when you saw that snake! It would make a good move for our next dance. Do you think you could teach the others? The snake jump?
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#88. A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
Peggy Noonan
#89. They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
Kate Bush
#90. Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#91. War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.
Terry Goodkind
#92. Write everyday, read everyday. Dance as if no one's watching, write as if no one's reading!
Toby Whithouse
#93. I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
Will Durant
#94. When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.
Scout Cloud Lee
#95. I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
Ella Eyre
#96. To dance is not to jump to your feet and rise painlessly in the air like dust. To rise above both worlds is to dance in the blood of your pain and give up your life.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#97. I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!
Ellen Schreiber
#98. When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
Philippa Gregory
#99. I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.
Dizzee Rascal
#100. He should have stayed a frog. Not all men are meant to dance with dragons.
George R R Martin
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