Dancer Quotes
673 quotes by 475 authors
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance…
— Camara Laye
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Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do…
— Judith Jamison
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals…
— Agnes de Mille
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at…
— Martha Graham
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The greater the fool the better the dancer.
— Theodore Hook
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EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST
— Ben Brantley
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My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
— Elvis Stojko
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After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
— John Landis
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
— Twyla Tharp
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the…
— Twyla Tharp
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Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to…
— Madonna Ciccone
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And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of…
— Khalil Gibran
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If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.
— Ed Sheeran
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and…
— Edgar Degas
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I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
— Annette Funicello
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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic…
— Lester Bangs
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Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
— Ronnie James Dio
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People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole…
— Steve Marriott
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who Wrote These Dancer Quotes
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