Dance Quotes - Page 7

• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Scotch, Hot

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

  Steven Rosenberg

  Needs, Failing, Foolish

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• Nothing is more revealing than movement.

  Martha Graham

  Dancing, Movement, Revealing

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• Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

  Frederick Busch

  Art, Prayer, Way

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• The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

  Isadora Duncan

  Teacher, Dancing, Jean Jacques Rousseau

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

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• There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Birthday, Stars

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [348]

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• I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Long, People, Dancing

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Volleyball, Mean, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Inspiration, Dancing, Feelings

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• The dance is the mother of all languages.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mother, Dancing, Language

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• Come and trip it as ye go
  On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Light, Ballet, Goes On

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Motivational, Business, Should Have

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Letting Go

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

  Martha Graham

  Dancing, Messengers, Choreography

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And by the Gods
  I will!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Should

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Night, Dancing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• No sane man will dance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Music, Men

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

  Louis Horst

  Interesting, Dancing, Matter

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Holiday, Eye, Writing

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

  Curt Sachs

  Wonder, Can Do

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• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Art, Dancing

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• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

  David Gere

  Dancing, Ballet, Three

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