Flamenco Quotes

• She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

  Janet Fitch

  Ocean, Guitar, Sea

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

  Klaus Kinski

  Sex, Real, Tourists

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Ballet Class

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dance, Sexy, Funny Sex

  In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962

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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

  Torrey DeVitto

  Latin, Dancing, Spain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Water, Together

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• There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Morning, Blue

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Heart, Wine

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• There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

  Jimmy Page

  Dream, Art, Guitar

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Smart, Dancer, Age

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• What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Years, Careers, Dancing

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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• As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

  Billy Sheehan

  Inspiration, Technique, Bass

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• We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

  Paz Vega

  Dancer, Typical, Singers

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• Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Thinking, America

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• I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

  Aubrey Plaza

  New York, Uncles, Philadelphia

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• When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to see him and I didn't know what flamenco was. But when I saw him play, I was blown away that one man on one instrument could make all that sound. I'd learned a lot, but that made a big impact. I had intuition for it. In about three years I learned most of what I know now.

  Steve Young

  College, Men, Years

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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