Dance Quotes

• What I found interesting in dance is the idea that my work has always been dealing with the nervousness between the human subject as a subject and the human subject as a form. And if you look at my dance films, there are always these cuts between the dancer as a form, the dancer as a subject, and this kind of very harsh treatment of the dancer as someone who's actually drawing with their body.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • Human
  • Films
  • Treatment

• You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Important
  • She
  • American

• I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Music
  • Film
  • Literature

• I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Dance

• My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Champion

• The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

  

  Bill Walton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dance
  • Smooth
  • Expertise

• I can dance to just about anything.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Dance

• I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.

  

  Beverly Williams
  • Want
  • Dance

• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Song

• I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Dance

• I'm the Lord of the Dance! Fuck Michael Flatley, it's me! ...Who has the balls to call themselves the lord of anything, huh? C'mon, last time somebody called themself lord on this planet, they got CRUCIFIED, Michael! And we know where the hammer and the nails are! We could put you up in a couple of minutes!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Time
  • Couple

• I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Bored

• No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Time
  • Dance

• I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Dance

• I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Dance

• I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur - he needs to drive himself.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • God
  • Night
  • Girl

• I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.

  

  Chris Black
  • Learned
  • Steps
  • Fork

• (talking about The Lord Of The Dance) Have you seen that show? If you have, GET OUT! Get the hell out of my show right now!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Dance

• We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Dance
  • Record
  • Rate

• I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.

  

  Ciara
  • Dance

• For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don't like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored on the elliptical. SoulCycle is basically a dance party on a bicycle, and you burn calories, and it's so fun.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Bored

• When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

  

  Catherine Mary Stewart
  • Scared
  • London
  • High School

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