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Dance Quotes by Alan Watts
- The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
- We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get…
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way…
- In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,…
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing…
- We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do…
More Dance Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — 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… — 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