Dancers Quotes · Page 5

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Rita Ora

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

— Jillian Hervey

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.

— Heather Morris

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

— Michaela DePrince

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

— Richard Schiff

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles.…

— Sylvie Guillem

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

— Avril Lavigne

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would…

— Chet Faker

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the…

— Adam Lambert

Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.

— Grover Dale

When I went to the sets of 'ABCD,' I felt younger. Surrounded by so many young dancers, I, too, became a dancer…

— Prabhu Deva

I've had a lot of little girls write to me saying that they want to be dancers and that I've inspired them.

— Cheryl Burke

Dancers are not like movie actresses. People look at our bodies, not our faces. They only recognise me when I sign my…

— Sylvie Guillem

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical -…

— Natalia Makarova

Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of…

— Robert Gottlieb

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers…

— George Nolfi

I couldn't get into classical companies in the U.S. and Canada. I would make the cuts in auditions and would be one…

— Michaela DePrince

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of…

— Pete Carroll

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and…

— Robert Gottlieb

My 'Strictly' experience has taken my admiration for the skill and stamina of dancers to a whole new level. They really are…

— Angela Rippon

We always have a really bad dancer on 'Strictly,' like Kate Garraway or Fiona Phillips, and that's great, and we love it,…

— Alesha Dixon

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

— Bryce Dessner

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

— George Balanchine

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

— Blackbear

I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.

— Cheryl Burke

“Families are always in the details of dancers movements. Love, passion, anger and laughter, are the descriptive ways we bring to life…our…

— Leyla Najma

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

— Deborah Bull

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

— Thomas Campion

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after…

— Murray Louis

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin…

— Edgar Degas

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be…

— Nellie McKay

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

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves…

— Jamelia

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said…

— Carlos Mencia

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for…

— Nelly Mazloum

I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with…

— Olivia Newton-John