Dancers Quotes · Page 5

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

— Issey Miyake

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.…

— Madonna Ciccone

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

— Robbie Robertson

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are…

— Twyla Tharp

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run,…

— Robert Gottlieb

There are dancers who put themselves on strict diets, but I'm not one of them.

— Michaela DePrince

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

— Judith Jamison

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the…

— Jacques d'Amboise

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out…

— Deborah Bull

“Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want…

— Torron-Lee Dewar

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as…

— Richard Bach

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

— Ann Reinking

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

— Colleen Atwood

I think it would be fair to say that most female dancers have dealt with, whether it's an extreme, or minor complex…

— Amanda Schull

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's exciting for me as a male to see other guys wanting to be ice dancers.

— Scott Moir

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to…

— Robert Gottlieb

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

— Rita Ora

I follow dancers like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, as they are in my zone, but when it comes to Indian dancing, I…

— Disha Patani

North American companies tend to shy away from black female dancers who are darker than a brown paper bag.

— Michaela DePrince

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of…

— Judith Jamison

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

— Blackbear

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going…

— Adam Rodriguez

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've…

— Agnetha Faltskog

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies…

— Kristin Cavallari