When You Dance Quotes

#1. When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn't matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god.

Katie Waitman

#2. (When)
When you call me nugget.
When you take pictures of me.
When you dance.
When you complement me.
When you laugh.
When your eyes squint as you smile.
When we make love when we're sick.
I fall more in love with you.

Crystal Woods

#3. When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

David Levithan

#4. Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.

Ned Vizzini

#5. If theater is ritual, then dance is too ... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Paulo Coelho

#6. When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

Adam Lambert

#7. When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Paulo Coelho

#8. His hands wrapped around her upper arms, holding her gently. You are even more beautiful when you dance.

Melanie Dickerson

#9. When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.

Didi

#10. When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

Patrick Swayze

#13. When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.

Amanda Hocking

#14. Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

Patricia McBride

#16. When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal ... Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.

Carlos Gavito

#17. It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink.

Charles Bukowski

#18. When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

Hugh Jackman

#19. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne W. Dyer

#20. You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.

Amit Ray

#21. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

Patrick Swayze

#22. I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.

Laurieann Gibson

#23. When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.

Anton Du Beke

#24. When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#25. When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

Mia Wasikowska

#26. When you dance with a storm, Danny, you have to be nimble and strong and full of your own lightning.

Amy Parker

#27. When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

Robert Duvall

#28. Yoga is a dance within ... and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that's when you dance on the outside.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

#29. You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley Maclaine

#30. Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance ... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

Amanda Schull

#31. Chills run down my spine as our fingers intwine
And your sighs harmonize with mine
Unmistakably I can still feel your heart
Beat fast when you dance with me.

Owl City

#32. Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

Emma Forrest

#33. When you dance on your own there is something so magical and so special.

Julianne Hough

#34. When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#35. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#36. Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start, so dance alone to the beat of your heart.

Fall Out Boy

#37. Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you.

Herodotus

#38. Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.

Sandra Kring

#39. Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack

Ellyn Spragins

#40. I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

Michael Leunig

#41. When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

Suzanne Farrell

#42. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.

Benjamin Harrison

#43. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#44. When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

Neil Patrick Harris

#45. All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting ... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there ... I think of it as my serious playground.

Laura Nyro

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

Evan Esar

#49. When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.

Margot Anand

#50. If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

Marjane Satrapi

#51. Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

Jacob Artist

#52. When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead.

Molly Harper

#53. Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

Martha Graham

#54. This is the place I finally learned what it meant
to dance alone to the song you put in my chest.
Thanks for the symphony.
I can still hear it when I think of you,
and it is so much like remembering.

Caitlyn Siehl

#55. What will they say, Ce, when we dance together? I want to do that. I want to hold you in my arms, in front of the entire damn world. Would you do that? Would you dance with me?

L.B. Gregg

#56. When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

Jane Wagner

#57. Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#58. [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

Oliver Burkeman

#59. Girlfriend? That's cute." Some people yelled when they got angry. Jason got sarcastic. Always. " Are you taking her to the dance next month? You should probably call ahead; I'm not sure if they let pets in-even ones that are house-trained.

Kathleen Peacock

#60. I don't know how to dance!" she said.
His arms tightened around her when she tried to pull away. "Then just let me hold you.

Airicka Phoenix

#61. I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.

Maisie Williams

#62. And when you hang from the gallows. When the door beneath you opens, when your feet do the Devil's Dance, then you will realize in that moment that this has all been for nothing, because there will be no one left to pull your feet.

Pierce Brown

#63. When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

Wayne Dyer

#64. Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.

Prem Rawat

#65. It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

George Balanchine

#66. What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.

Tony Danza

#67. When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#68. The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.

Robert Duvall

#69. Learn to dance in the storm so when life hands you a stormy weather, you just glide through it

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#70. My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#71. I'm going to go fishing next summer. And I'm going to try French fries dipped in ice cream. And, when I have s'mores, I'll make an extra one for you. When I hear our favourite songs, I'll dance for you. I'll do anything for you. I'll do it all for you.

Lisa De Jong

#72. When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze ... think of it as a dance in your honor.

Marjolein Bastin

#73. When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

Allan McNish

#74. You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Black Elk

#75. 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

#76. When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

Laura Slade Wiggins

#77. Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

A.O. Storm

#78. Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!

Mark Frost

#79. Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

Gabrielle Roth

#80. I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

Lee Ann Womack

#81. 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

#82. Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

Gerald Hausman

#83. When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

Marina Abramovic

#84. When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

Matthew Kelly

#85. Love lost, is still love ... 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.

Mitch Albom

#86. Ya better come inside
when you're ready to
but no chance if ya don't wanna dance
you like four letter words when you're ready to
but then you won't 'cos you know that you can

Def Leppard

#87. When you love yourself, feel the joy of your soul and see the dance of your spirit, you are really living your life.

Debasish Mridha

#88. 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

Natalie Martinez

#89. When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Michael Franti

#90. Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#91. When I'm home alone I just dance by myself
And you pull my head so close volume goes with the truth
Signing off 'I'm alright in bed but I'm better with a pen'
The kid was alright but it went to his head

Fall Out Boy

#92. You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

Brad Pitt

#93. No
when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)

Rachel Cohn

#94. When fear raises it's head, don't freak, look it in the eye, ask it its name and what it wants to teach you, then invite it to dance, pull it in real close and let it know that this is your life and your dance and you'll be taking the lead.

Les Dossey

#95. The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

Joseph Campbell

#96. Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Tom DeLonge

#97. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

#98. I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.

Anne Lamott

#99. I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

Olivia Holt

#100. I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

Nadia Ali