Dance Quote by John Herschel

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that…

— John Herschel

Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in…

— Mura Masa

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

— Horace Bushnell

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

— Sonny Rollins

The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social aspect of…

— Memory Tapes

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

— John Seagall

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music…

— Oliver Sacks

Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an activity of the body,…

— Jacques Attali

Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy,…

— Stephen Hough

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

— Boethius

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing,…

— E. O. Wilson

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid…

— Michael Azerrad