Dancer Quotes - Page 3

• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

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• I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

  Bobby Darin

  Moving, Singers

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• But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Running, Crazy, Athlete

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Crazy, Father, Atlanta

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• I'm a terrible dancer.

  Rupert Friend

  Terrible

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• Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, Media, Musician

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• I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

  Suzanne Farrell

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Unemotional

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• I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

  Sasha Alexander

  Work Out, Acting, Exotic

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• I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

  Sheena Easton

  Terrible, Worst

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• I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

  Juliet Mills

  School, Eight, Years

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• Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, Character, Grace

  Zoe Saldana Biography (Trivia/ Quotes), TV.com, www.tv.com.

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• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Chinese, Groups, Actors

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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Acting, Used, Combination

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