Dance Quotes · Page 52

I shake all the time. It's exhausting and causes chronic pain in my joints and muscles. It is also the only life…

— Maysoon Zayid

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

— Martha Graham

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

— George Gascoigne

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world…

— Bill T. Jones

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

— Jay Park

The mindset of this [“Gangnam Style”] dance is dress classy, and dance cheesy,

— PSY

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.

— Ishaan Khatter

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working…

— Julianne Hough

I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen,…

— Michael Adam Hamilton

“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.”

— Dorothy Bryant

“Vampires moved with inhuman grace - the fae moved as if life were a dance, and only they knew the steps.”

— S.J. Himes

I wanted to be a star. I wanted to become a dancing star but didn't think I would become an actor.

— Radhika Madan

When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and…

— Tinashe

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

— Fred Astaire

"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large…

— Lucinda Childs

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind…

— Jane Austen

“and so it came to pass that i was strapped to a gurney and covered in raw liver and slabs of beef…

— James St. James

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my…

— Amy Purdy

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

— Maisie Williams

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

— Sylvie Guillem

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys…

— John Paul Caponigro

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

— Confucius