Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired. — Jose Limon
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience. — Murray Louis
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. — Mitch Hedberg
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. — Huey Lewis
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina. — Michaela DePrince
On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap. — Barbara Cook
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
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19? — Rita Hayworth
Those who can’t dance blame it on the flute and the drum. — Thai Proverbs
Tap Dance Quotes
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. — Vicki Baum
Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. — Fred Astaire
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
I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn’t matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I’m never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy. — Cote de Pablo
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing. — Jonny Greenwood
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. — Anna Halprin
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months. — Ginger Rogers
Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing. — Angus Young
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
Pointe Dancers Quotes
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it — Isadora Duncan
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell. — Susan Jaffe
The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. — Bill Irwin
I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun. — Nina Dobrev
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion. — Agnes De Mille
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely. — Martha Graham
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. — Martha Graham
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork. — Harold Nicholas
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. — Agnes De Mille
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer. — Eleanor Powell
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs. — Duane Michals
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. — Moliere
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
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. — Jimi Hendrix
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life. — Jacques d'Amboise
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. — Andy Warhol
If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror. — Vanna Bonta
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally. — Sandra Cisneros
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you. — Laura Benanti
I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. — Elliott Gould
I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love. — Taryn Manning
I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it. — Roselee Goldberg
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw. — Frank McCourt
I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu. — Roselee Goldberg
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either. — Peter Ackroyd
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