And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whopping Dance Music quotations
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps.
Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
Dance is music made visible
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power.
A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
Art is the heart's explosion on the world.
Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul.
The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
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.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage.
We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced.
A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.