Dance Quotes - Page 19

• A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Dancing, Storm

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust. Ed. with a Translation by Justin O'Brien”

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• Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

  Kate Magowan

  Communication, Heart, Reality

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• James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Body, Steps

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• My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Song, Gum

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Art, Years

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• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  Patrick Swayze

  Inspirational, Crazy, Men

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• Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

  Bob Marley

  Sweet, Moving, Weather

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• Disco is just jitterbug.

  Fred Astaire

  Justice, Disco

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

  Delta Burke

  Inspirational, Exercise, Stuff

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• The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

  Jamake Highwater

  Husband, Dancing, Wife

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• I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Interesting, House

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• Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

  Surya Das

  Waiting, Emptiness

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• We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

  Ruben Blades

  Inspirational, People

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• Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life Is Like, Movement, Awareness

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 22, 2011

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• In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Prayer, Past, Remembrance

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.220, Delacorte Press

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• I told you to sell it, not give it away.

  Jerome Robbins

  Giving, Sells

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• Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

  Mary Wigman

  Art, Strong, Arise

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• Better Dancing makes Better Lovers

  Ramon Novarro

  Dancing, Lovers

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• In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

  Jamake Highwater

  Mistake, Dancing, Watches

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Surprise, Partnership, Provocative

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• Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Heart, Eye, Theater

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hustle, Literature, Steps

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• Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Looks, Tense

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

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  After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

  Ann Richards

  Inspirational, Women, High Heels

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• Dancing is as old as love.

  Lucian

  Dancing

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