Dance Quotes

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Kids
  • Guitar
  • Track

• Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

  

  Eleanor Bergstein
  • Dance
  • Arms
  • Hold

• The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

  

  Jane Porter
  • Dance

• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Fall
  • Professional
  • Discipline

• I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Fun
  • Dance
  • Jump

• I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Dance must have a precision without fault.

  

  Arielle Dombasle
  • Dance

• I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Dance

• Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

  

  John Wesley Powell
  • Dance
  • Prayer

• When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I started doing all sorts of musical camps and a lot of professional theater. I took dance classes for 10 years, too - I was never the most amazing kid in the other classes, but tap stuck with me for some reason.

  

  Aubrey Peeples
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Dance
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• I was in the chorus in high school, not a soloist. I was on the basketball team. I was in modern dance, part of the group. I was a cheerleader, part of the group. I played the violin, part of the orchestra. I never wanted to be out there alone. Ever.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • High School
  • Orchestra
  • Cheerleader

• Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • Art
  • Dance

• McKey...gets it in to Miller for the win...IT'S THERE! Four tenths of a second! Yeah, you can dance, Reggie! One of the greatest clutch playoff performers of his generation has apparently done it again!

  

  Bob Costas
  • Done
  • Dance

• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Reading
  • Dance

• It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it's great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they're doing.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Gestures

• When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

  

  Mark Sheppard
  • Interesting
  • Dance

• My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Music
  • Dance

• When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Prayer

• In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • She
  • Father
  • Daughter

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