Dance Quotes
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
Eve Ensler
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There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.
David Gere
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I got the part in Into the Forest, I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.
Evan Rachel Wood
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From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
Rita Hayworth
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They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
Etta James
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
Elvis Costello
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
Abraham Coles
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It's very funny that I'm being appreciated for my dance moves because when I was young, I was made fun of, as nobody thought I was able to dance.
Nora Fatehi
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
Ezra Pound
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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
Anthony Trollope
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There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.
Anna Kendrick
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Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most
Anthony Robbins
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If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.
Harry Shum, Jr.
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
Ezra Pound
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"A guy who knows how to dance knows how to fight. A guy who knows how to fight knows how to love. A person who knows how to fight will break bones yet a person who knows how to love will break hearts".
David Arenas Torres
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
Tori Spelling
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Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
Eran Creevy
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Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.
Nora Fatehi
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It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.
Anton du Beke
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
Erik Bruhn
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Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
Judith Jamison
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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
Isadora Duncan