Dance Quotes

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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be… — Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nobody is born a dancer. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry… — Charles Baudelaire
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. — Warren G. Bennis
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and… — Aaliyah

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