Dance Quotes

• For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • motivation

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Explore

• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Night
  • Me
  • Club

• I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Dance

• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Career
  • New York

• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Up
  • Age
  • Ballet

• I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

  

  Blake Lively
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Men
  • Dance

• I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

  

  Chloe Bridges
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Dance

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • Music
  • Learning

• 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
  • Job
  • Dance
  • Champion

• Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Night
  • Child

• I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.

  

  Kathryn McCormick
  • Time
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• Dance until you shatter yourself.

  

  Rumi
  • Dance
  • Yourself
  • Shatter

• If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Blue

• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Environment
  • Dance
  • Creative

• My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Teacher
  • Girls
  • Pictures

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