Great Dance Quotes

• 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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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

  William Watson Purkey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Breathing, Dancing

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• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Mother, Art

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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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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

  Henry Fielding

  Dance, War, Dancing

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.126

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• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Communication, Dancing

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  The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Love Yourself

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

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• There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Body

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

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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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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Love like you'll never be hurt.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

  George Balanchine

  Motivational, Dance, Thinking

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• Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

  Wendy Buonaventura

  Dancing, Dancer, Just Dance

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• Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Eye, Mind

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

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