Brooklyn Quote by Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

— Josh Segarra

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

— Vera Farmiga

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to…

— Patrick Swayze

I've always wanted to play violin.

— Maggie Rogers

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

— Madonna Ciccone

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

— Birdy

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.

— Taron Egerton

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

— Chloe Benjamin

I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!

— Will M Cook

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens,…

— Zubin Mehta

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

— Peter Wright