Dancing Quotes - Page 33

• Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

  Andrew Asnes

  Dance, Adversity, Ballet

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• The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

  Plato

  Dance, Art, Soul

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• A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

  Marcia Siegel

  Inspirational, Dance, Ideas

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• Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

  Richard Bangs

  Winning, Rivers, Water

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• I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

  Kabir

  Joy, Sorrow, Elements

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

  Ninette de Valois

  Talking, Singing, Progress

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• It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls originated, ... So it wasn't just another nightclub. It was somewhere where people can go and see an old school show with real dancing and real performing and real singing. It's perfect for Vegas. It's got that whole cabaret, burlesque-inspired review of dancing, and the whole fishnets, and boas.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Real, School, Vegas

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• The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

  Norman Granz

  Sight, Singing, Band

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• My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

  Irene Cara

  Mother, Mirrors, Piano

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• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

  Linda Lavin

  Singing, Acting, Singing Dancing

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• I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

  Tom Jaine

  Thinking, Interesting, Intellectual

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• The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Moving, Men

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• On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

  Henny Youngman

  Girl, Ballet, Tiptoes

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Art

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• Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.

  Vera-Ellen

  Breathing, Missing, Ballet

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• Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Ballet, Way, Path

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• It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Sight, Ballet, Mind

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• Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

  Anna Pavlova

  Ballet, Want, Quitting

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• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

  Judith Jamison

  People, Giving, Dancer

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• Dancing cheek to cheek.

  Irving Berlin

  Ballet, Cheeks

  "Cheek to Cheek" (song) (1935)

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• My dancing days are past.

  Philip Massinger

  Past, Ballet

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.149

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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Ballet

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• I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

  Jody Watley

  Mirrors, Ballet, Acting

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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

  Agnes de Mille

  Hypnosis, Self, Giving

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