Quotes About Folk Dance

#1. All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Ninette De Valois

#2. I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

David Crosby

#3. I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more ... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

Betty Field

#4. In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony.

Julian Barnes

#5. The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

Jamake Highwater

#6. You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument.

Roger McGuinn

#7. From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

Ailyn Perez

#8. Tobi had summed it up in Jigsaw: A band is any song you ever played with anybody even if only once.

Sara Marcus

#9. For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,"Here is the fiddler of Dooney!" / And dance like a wave of the sea.

W.B.Yeats

#10. I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Sufjan Stevens

#11. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!

Rex L. Forehand

#12. (a womanist)
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

Alice Walker

#13. If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes De Mille

#14. Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Brad Delson

#15. The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Kanye West

#16. Something about Van has always brought late-night nature programming to mind.

John Wray

#17. Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.

Jeff Strand

#18. Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

George R R Martin

#19. When I play on my fiddle in Dooney
Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

William Butler Yeats

#20. In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

Robert Gottlieb

#21. The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

Ron Perlman

#22. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope