Dance Quotes

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If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing. — Unknown Author
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing. — Plato
In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance. — Plato
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well. — Plato
Better Dancing makes Better Lovers — Ramon Novarro
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you… — Artie Shaw
Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and… — Jim Bowden
The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul. — Curt Sachs
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have… — Curt Sachs
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the… — Curt Sachs
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of… — Curt Sachs
Every dance is and gives ecstasy. — Curt Sachs
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they… — Curt Sachs
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of… — Curt Sachs
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. — Curt Sachs
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all… — Curt Sachs
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus… — Curt Sachs
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs

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