Dancing Quotes - Page 9

• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

  Igor Youskevitch

  Dance, Expression, Realization

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• Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Dance, Light

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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• It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Years, Ballet

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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

  Dance, Ballet, Three

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• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Sadness, Expression

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• Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Dance

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Dance, Art, Night

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• All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

  Martha Graham

  Love, Dance, Live In The Moment

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• How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dance, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.158

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Teacher, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Dance

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

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• People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

  Susan Jaffe

  Dance, Cutting, Blood

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• All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

  Luis de la Fuente

  Dance, Expression, Circus

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• Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

  Paula Abdul

  Fitness, Fun, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Jan 10, 2012

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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

  Dance, Mistake, Reality

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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, Dance, Business

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• I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

  Buddy Hackett

  People, Argument, Grudge

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• Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Heart, Soul

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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Toes, Attention

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• Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hands, Together, Twelve

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• Dancing is my obsession. My life.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Obsession

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• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Dance, Children, Attitude

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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