Dance Quotes - Page 33

• It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

  Siobhan Davies

  Play, Influence, Existence

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• The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

  Siobhan Davies

  Ideas, Ballet, Needs

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• Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.

  Jean-Christophe Maillot

  Giving, Should, Conclusion

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• We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

  La Meri

  Technique, Acrobatics, Movement

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• The only weapon I had was my dancing.
  With that I fought like a general without an army.
  If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
  it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

  Maya Plisetskaya

  Struggle, Army, Dancing

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• For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Spiritual, Art, Emotional

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• If we can think, feel, and move, we can dance.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Moving, Thinking, Feels

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• Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!

  Ibrahim Farah

  Body, Way, Spirit

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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

  Angela Carter

  Joy

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• Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

  Anita Brookner

  Thinking, Dancing, Singing

  Anita Brookner (2012). “Dolly”, p.173, Vintage

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• I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Inspirational, Dream, Morning

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• You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Kings, Grim Reaper

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• Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

  Mike Judge

  Fashion, Thinking, Judging

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

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Inspirational, Play, Flow

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• It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Song

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

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Men, High Heels

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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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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Play, Meditation And Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Perfect, Unity, Shiva

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

  Fred Astaire

  Sex, Movement, Able

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• Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

  Claude Debussy

  Silence, Steps, Notes

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• Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Dancing, World

  "Dangerous". Album by Michael Jackson, 1991.

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