Dance Quotes - Page 29

• I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dream, Song

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• If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

  Jennifer Crusie

  Inspirational, Example, Warning

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.17, Macmillan

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• And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

  Anne Lamott

  Cold, Moments, Hungry

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• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• If you don't do your dance, who will?

  Gabrielle Roth

  Healing, Ifs

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• If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Needs, If I Could

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• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Long, Jazz

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• One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

  Rick Dees

  Reality, Roles, Attention

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• There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Order, Ballet

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• It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

  Alla Osipenko

  Art, Moving, Temptation

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• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.

  Doris Humphrey

  Art, Believe, Unique

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• As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

  Mary Oliver

  Long, Dancing, Break

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.18, Penguin

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• Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Meditation, Messages, Metaphor

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• If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

  Peggy Lee

  Dancing, My Friends, Ifs

  Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003

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• Dance on the edge of mystery.

  Alan Cohen

  Dancing, Mystery, Edges

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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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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dancing, Ballet, Body

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Swans, Two

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• I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

  Britney Spears

  Inspirational, Kids, Opportunity

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• People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

  Chaz Bono

  Inspirational, People, Television

  "Chaz: You won't get gender dysphoria watching me on 'DWTS'" by Anna Chan, www.today.com. September 6, 2011.

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• When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

  Chris Isaak

  Inspirational, Couple, School

  "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview With Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Song, Powerful

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• I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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