Just Dance Quotes - Page 6

• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

  Doris Humphrey

  Inspirational, Dance, Simple

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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 poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

  Marcia Siegel

  Vocabulary, Order, Ballet Class

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• The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Dancing, Body

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Education

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

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Dance, Life And Love

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Motivational, Dance

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Heart, Dancing

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• He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

  Liza Minnelli

  Dance, Sports, Baseball

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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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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Discipline, Dancing

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• You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

  Glenda Jackson

  Needs, Like You, Song And Dance

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• The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Tree, Spine

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• No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Dance, Wisdom

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Thinking, Mirrors

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

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Volleyball, Mean

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

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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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• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

  Thomas Campion

  Dance, Answers, Kind

  'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Practice

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

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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, Dancing

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• I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Believe, Dancing

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• You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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