Dancers Quotes
265 Dancers quotes by 191 unique authors
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Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and…
— Siobhan Davies
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Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is…
— Siobhan Davies
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You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having…
— Jamelia
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Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
— Karen Kain
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I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
— Graeme Murphy
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I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
— Graeme Murphy
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just…
— Chris Elam
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
— Curt Sachs
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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
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of…
— Jamake Highwater
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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.
— Confucius
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I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like…
— Ronnie Spector
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The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers,…
— Unknown Author
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Dancers are both athletes and artists.
— Margot Fonteyn
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It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
— Dodie Smith
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Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers,…
— Vivianne Crowley
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I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited…
— Daryl Morey
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Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers…
— James W. Pennebaker
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I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just…
— Emanuel Steward
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People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
— Edgar Degas
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My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't…
— Misty Copeland
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Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.
— Michael Jackson
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So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something…
— Katherine Dunham
Who Wrote These Dancers Quotes
191 authors contributed a total of 265 Dancers Quotes, led by these top contributors: