Quote by Thelonious Monk

“Fancy pants, the monk can dance!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“To grasp your rhythm on the dance floor gives you free flowing.”

— Euginia Herlihy

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band,…

— Ray Brown

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that…

— Randy Weston

“You have only to feel the sacred music of your soul, to dance.”

— Connie Bowen

“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

“Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.”

— Donna Goddard

“I don't know that dancing fixes anything. I don't feel magically happy because of it. My problems don't disappear when the music ends. But…

— Cora Carmack

“I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.”

— Diego Ramos

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in…

— Ann Miller

“If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”

— Gregory Orr