Just Dance Quotes

• Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Feet, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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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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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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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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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Heart

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

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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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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• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  Bill Austin

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Dancing

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

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

  Dave Barry

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

  Lord Byron

  Dance, Aquarius, Feet

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Forgotten Things

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

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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

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• Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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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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• So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

  Hermann Hesse

  Dance, Taken, Dancing

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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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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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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