Merce Cunningham Quotes

You have to love dancing to stick to it.

Merce Cunningham

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• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• I love dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Dancing

• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Three
  • Dancing
  • Scottish

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Time
  • Period
  • Professional

• Modern dancing is old fashioned.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Old
  • Modern
  • Dancing

• I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

  

  Vijay
  • Practice
  • Enjoy
  • Dancing

• The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  

  James Brown
  • Problem
  • Dance
  • Happiness

• Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Fun
  • High
  • Practice

• Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Knows
  • Dancing
  • Pants

• All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Littles
  • Dancing
  • Honey

• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Labels
  • Sticks
  • Vagrants

• God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • God
  • Peace
  • Joy

• We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Cosmos

• Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

  

  Jerome Robbins
  • Art
  • Book
  • Dance

• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Kindness
  • Meaningful
  • Appreciate

• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Taken

• I’m not saying this rudely to talk shit on anyone, but I truly feel so unimpressed by the concept of standing in a crowd and looking and one or two or three humans on stage dancing alone to music. It’s not that mind-blowing. Again, I’m not saying that all DJs suck except for me. I’m saying, me included, it’s preposterous.

  

  Bassnectar
  • Stage
  • Dancing
  • Crowd

• I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.

  

  Radamel Falcao
  • Problem

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• You have to love dancing to stick to it.

  

  Merce Cunningham
  • Dancing
  • Sticks