Dance Quote by Merce Cunningham Download Open image “The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.” — Merce Cunningham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dance Dancer Dancing Devotion Discipline Essentials Inspirational dance Just dance Religion Short dance
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. — Siobhan Davies Copy Share Image
I have always followed my passion to dance religiously. And that keeps me agile and youthful at heart. — Hema Malini Copy Share Image
Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age. — Teri Polo Copy Share Image
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow. — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion,… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains. — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.” — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
