"If you dance, you dance because you have……" — Katherine Dunham
"If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know."
More Dance Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — 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… — 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… — 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
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov