Dance Quotes - Page 22

• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Home, Night, Shoes

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Work, Hippie, Live Life

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• I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

  Rod Paige

  Done, Tables, Tap Dance

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Believe, Practice, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Motivation, Believe, Vitality

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

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Fear, Philosophy, Taken

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• From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Art, Mean, Dancing

  "Wizards, Geisha and a Gorilla Hit the Flicks", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2005.

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• I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.

  Venus Williams

  Dancing, Feels, Right Now

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• Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.

  Tara Reid

  Fun, Paris, People

  "Tara Reid visits Paris and Paris". www.today.com. August 5, 2005.

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• The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

  Tara Reid

  Tables, Worst, Worst Things

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• I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

  Mark Morris

  People, Dancing, Looks

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• A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

  Gary Shapiro

  Amusement, Parks, Amusement Parks

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• Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Beats

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.46, Heinemann

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• Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Movement, Stones

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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Dancing, Conversation

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Ideas, Space, Tea

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Dancing, Movement

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  Agnes de Mille

  Girl, Running, Boys

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• I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

  Martha Graham

  Dancer, Chosen

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• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

  Mata Hari

  Movement, Sacred, Temples

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• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  Gary Sinise

  Dream, Scene, Hopkins

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• Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

  Martha Graham

  Wings, Body, Remember

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• The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Civilization, Special, World

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• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Drama, Artist

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• All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

  John Updike

  Dancing, Devil, Standing

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.366, Random House

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