Dance Quotes - Page 28

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

  Jose Limon

  Tired, Dancing, Pompous

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Our World, Aggravation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

  Lucian

  Voice, Lips, Plenty

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Running, Spiritual, Expression

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

  Graeme Murphy

  Giving, Next Steps, Next

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• Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

  Jan Murray

  Art, Communication, People

  Jan Murray (1979). “Dance now”

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• I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Speak, Silent, Conclusion

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• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Cat, Innocent, Presentation

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• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Teacher, Class, Two

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

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• We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Soul, Body, My Family

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

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• If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

  Rajneesh

  Feels, Knows, Asks

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• When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Ballet, Movement

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• All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

  Camille Paglia

  Kings, Stars, Artist

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• I danced from the moment I could stand.

  Anna Pavlova

  Moments

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

  Rajneesh

  Dancing, Ego, Forget

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• Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

  Ann Reinking

  Real, Flames, Long

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• There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

  Doris Humphrey

  Inspirational, Simple, Dancing

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• Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

  Myrna Loy

  Life, Dancing, Receiving

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

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• I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Men, High Heels

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• Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night.

  Robert Helpmann

  Sexy, Night, Thinking

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• Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Wisdom, Eye, Average

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• Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Dancing

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• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Inspirational, Play, Flow

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• In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Moving, Soul, Body

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• The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Religious, Stronger, Movement

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