In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. — Maurice Bejart
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. — Rudolf Nureyev
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. — Gene Kelly
Short Dancing Quotes
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art. — Alicia Alonso
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. — Susan Polis Schutz
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. — Vivien Leigh
Denis Law could dance on eggshells. — Bill Shankly
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. — T. S. Eliot
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. — Erica Jong
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. — Maya Angelou
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. — Martha Graham
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. — Rumi
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. — Steve Martin
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. — Ted Shawn
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance. — Fred Astaire
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. — Carl Sandburg
If you dance with your heart, your body will follow. — Mia Michaels
I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls. — Gene Kelly
If you stumble, make it part of the dance.
Irish Dancing Quotes
Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on. — James Cagney
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. — Michael Flatley
My mother was a champion Irish dancer and singer and most of my family were musical, particularly in Irish dancing. Music is all about spewing out your emotions. A mixture of a good tune and a good beat and everyone playing their guts out and something that grabs people's attention. — Shane MacGowan
I gave away the Irish dancing, which is pivotal. It's just so silly and fun and nice to do because it kind of lifts the energy for us, right at the point where the energy could start to take a nose dive. — Katherine Shindle
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world. — Michael Flatley
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again. — Andrea Corr
Singing And Dancing Quotes
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching. — Victor Hugo
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance with the rain
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching,
and live like it’s heaven on earth. — Susanna Clarke
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy. — William Tyndale
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut
Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha.
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. — Margot Kidder
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. — Rod Serling
I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing. — Beyonce Knowles
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. — Helen Keller
Keep Dancing Quotes
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 — Peter Tosh
Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. — J. Cole
Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Trust me, You can dance.
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. — Martha Graham
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. — Arna Bontemps
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
If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing. — Cyd Charisse
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music. — Artie Shaw
YouTube keeps changing, and you have to change with it. — Ryan Higa
Ballroom Dancing Quotes
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. — Louis Horst
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner. — Fred Astaire
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. — Michel de Montaigne
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. — Vince Lombardi
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. — William Shakespeare
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. — Samuel Beckett
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer
Dance... enjoy each step along the way. — Wayne Dyer
Dancing With The Devil Quotes
So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever. — Immortal Technique
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. — E. T. A. Hoffmann
Great leaders are willing to follow. Leadership is a dance, not a parade.
Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars. — Young Jeezy
[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back. — Demi Lovato
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight? — Jack Nicholson
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils. — Bruce Springsteen
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
I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. — Pauly Shore
When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you. — Amanda Hocking
Dancing With The Stars Quotes
May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. — George Jung
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. — Neil Gaiman
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered. — Ivan Turgenev
Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. — Stephen King
I will do Dancing with the Stars when my career dips. — Pauly D
The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance. — Gene Kelly
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' — Bill Maher
During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward. — Carrie Ann Inaba
I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can. — Angela Lansbury
Line Dancing Quotes
If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke. — Merle Haggard
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali
I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica. — Darynda Jones
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth. — Martha Graham
What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energizing the land? Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light? — Sue Arnold
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth
Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. — Arianna Huffington
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers. — Bill Watterson
When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line. — Faith Ford
I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line. — Donald O'Connor
Dancing In The Rain Quotes
Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain. — Steve Rizzo
Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain. — Adam Young
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm. — Richie Havens
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. — Herbert Simon
Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun. — Osho
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun. — Neil Gaiman
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
The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain. — Paula Gunn Allen
I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me. — Rachel Cohn
Dance Moves Quotes
Energy moves in waves.
Waves move in patterns.
Patterns move in rhythms.
A human being is just that
energy, waves, patterns, rhythms.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
A dance. — Gabrielle Roth
You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do. — Gichin Funakoshi
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. 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. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. — Flavia Weedn
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James
I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets. — Gene Kelly
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. — Gabrielle Roth
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A. — Dianna Agron
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. — Craig Claiborne
Dance Steps Quotes
The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. — Carlos Gavito
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 Dyer
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. — Carlos Gavito
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. — Jose Limon
Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles. — Wilma Mankiller
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. — Harriet Lerner
When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different. — Bill Austin
Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this. — Ginger Rogers
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. — Fran Lebowitz
Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it. — Kyra Davis
Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing. — Lewis Grizzard
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am. — Isadora Duncan
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls . — Merce Cunningham
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man. — Gene Kelly
You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. — James Dean
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love. — Barbara Johnson
Dance Life Quotes
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! — Maya Angelou
You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life. — Brendon Urie
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
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. — Zachary Levi
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance. — Pina Bausch
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. — Albert Einstein
Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. — Misty Copeland
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell
Dance Class Quotes
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. — Rudolf Nureyev
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it — Isadora Duncan
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. — James Earl Jones
Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat! — Jiri Kylian
There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands. — Ian Brown
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. — Marcia Siegel
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. — Frank Iero
Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy. — Liza Minnelli
Dance Passion Quotes
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo. — Charley Harper
It dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances,
it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail,
It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances. — Rabindranath Tagore
I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . — Ali Shariati
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. — William Kempe
Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn’t afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills. — Hannah Bronfman
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. — Steve Aoki
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession — Janny Scott
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion. — Agnes De Mille
Dance Music Quotes
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. — Anna Pavlova
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. — Giorgio Moroder
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul — Plato
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. — Martha Reeves
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. — Carlos Gavito
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are — Tom DeLonge
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. — Gustave Flaubert
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. — George Bernard Shaw
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. — Gene Kelly
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. — William Stafford
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. — Tina Weymouth
Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. — Susun Weed
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. — Homer
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