Dancing Quotes - Page 30

• Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

  Norman Mailer

  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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• Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

  Rumi

  Dance, Just Dance

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• I explained it when I danced it.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance

  "Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous?" by Lyndsey Winship, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• If I can not dance, I shall die!

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Can Not, Dies

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• Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Mean, Discipline

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• Where there is no heart there is no art.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Art, Heart

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• Even the ears must dance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Ballet, Ears

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

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dance, Lasts, Directors

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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

  Dance, Long, People

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• Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Just Dance, Has Beens

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• When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, People, Three

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• There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Mean, Thinking

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• It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Laughter, Fun

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• The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Thinking, Mirrors

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Ballet, Technique

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• Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Mirrors, Just Dance

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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

  Dance, Inspiration, Feelings

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• Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Movement

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

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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

  Dance, Interesting, Matter

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• Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Art, Soul

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• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Pain, Light

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• The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

  Herman Melville

  Girl, Dance, Eye

  Herman Melville (1860). “Typee : a peep at polynesian life, during a four months residence in a valley of the Marquesas”, p.179

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