Dance Quotes

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If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort,… — Jose Limon
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to… — Debbie Allen
I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so… — Debbie Allen
The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions… — Bob Fosse
Dance expresses joy better than anything else. — Bob Fosse
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not… — Isadora Duncan
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey
I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every… — Thom Yorke
I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But… — June Allyson
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days. — Lily Aldridge
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the… — Julius Nyerere
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal… — David Almond
For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career. — Perry Como
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.… — Knut Hamsun
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last… — Ian St John
In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily. — Gerard van der Leeuw
The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious… — Gerard van der Leeuw
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. — Alan Watts

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