Quotes About Jazz Dance

#1. My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

Toni Tennille

#2. I did jazz dance for a few years.

Sharon Van Etten

#3. Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

#4. The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

Josemaria Escriva

#5. Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Joe Lovano

#6. I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

Jennifer Grey

#7. There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

#8. [David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

David Bowie

#9. Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.

Paulo Coelho

#10. As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Terry Teachout

#11. In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

Keke Palmer

#13. Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!

Torron-Lee Dewar

#14. Dance, you jazz-mad puppets of fate, and

Dorothy Parker

#15. I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.

Ryan Newman

#16. I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

#17. Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

Craig Ferguson

#18. I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

Miles Teller

#19. I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

Madonna Ciccone

#20. Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Dizzy Gillespie

#21. In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

Norman Jewison

#22. All them weird chords which don't mean a thing ... you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

Louis Armstrong

#23. No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#24. When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

Tom Jones

#25. My nerves did a jitter dance,

Jazz Feylynn

#26. Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

Illinois Jacquet

#27. I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

Laverne Cox

#28. I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Cyndi Lauper

#29. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks

#30. People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Michael Pitt

#31. I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz ... I'm very flexible.

Michael Angarano

#32. My nerves did a jitter dance, stuck between two wolves.

Jazz Feylynn

#33. 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