Dance Quotes - Page 40

• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

  Lord Byron

  Aquarius, Feet, Glowing

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

  John Adams

  Reading, Dancing, Political

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.315

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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

  Moliere

  Skills, Dancing, Leader

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Ballet Class, Dancing, Rafters

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

  Michael Jackson

  Dancing, Sacred, Spirit

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• Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

  Janny Scott

  Discipline, Serious, Passionate

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• Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

  Janny Scott

  Body, Tango

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• When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  People, Dancing, Knows

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• Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

  Ronan Keating

  Children, Thinking, Blood

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• Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

  Alicia Markova

  Moving, Fall, Heart

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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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• I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

  Aaliyah

  Inspirational, Laughing, Singing

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• Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

  Alvin Ailey

  Pleasure, Choreography, Studios

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

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• I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Buckets, Closed Minded

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• This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Real, Impact

  "Tori Amos " by Michael Tedder, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

  Laurie Anderson

  Inspirational, Sex, Teenage

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• I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspirational, Rap, Bob

  "Francesca Annis: 'Remember, I didn't choose to be an actress'". Interview with Hermione Eyre, www.independent.co.uk. December 15, 2002.

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• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

  Fred Astaire

  Mistake, Reality, Dancing

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• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

  George Balanchine

  Teacher, Medicine, Ballet

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• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Successful, Ballet, Important

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• I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Kind, Modern, Lost

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• I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Photography, Looks

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• I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, One Day, Pleasure

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• Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspirational, Renaissance, Way

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