Dancing Quotes

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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. — Clive Barnes
What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,… — Ray Bolger
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg… — Agnes de Mille
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes de Mille
Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let… — Isadora Duncan
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I… — Katherine Dunham
Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't… — Duke Ellington
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. — Suzanne Farrell
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes… — Suzanne Farrell
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the… — Bob Fosse
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham
I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the… — Michael Jackson
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing âˆ’ and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know… — Michael Jackson
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to… — Lincoln Kirstein
Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give… — Jay Leno
Dancing is as old as love. — Lucian
Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication… — Kate Magowan
Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just… — Ann Reinking

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