Dancing Quotes

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

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 my case, dancing.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.