Just Dance Quotes - Page 7

• Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
  Spins the heavy world around.

  A. E. Housman

  Dance, Drinking, Dancing

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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

  Glenda Jackson

  Needs, Like You, Song And Dance

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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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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Dance, Spiritual, Littles

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

  Alarmel Valli

  Dance, Wine, Dancing

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• But oh, she dances in such a way!
  No sun upon an Easter-day
  Is half so fine a sight.

  John Suckling

  Dance, Easter, Sight

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37

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• Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Dancing, Has Beens

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• When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, People, Dancing

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

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• Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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

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• Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

  Louis Horst

  Dance, Interesting, Dancing

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• You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

  Steven Rosenberg

  Dance, Needs, Failing

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• First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Prayer, Sweat

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

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• It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Exercise, Skills

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• The further off from England the nearer is to France-
  Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dance, Dancing, France

  The Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери, Шарль Перро (2016). “Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия”, p.85, Slavamax BVBA

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• Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

  William Cobbett

  Dance, Animal, People

  William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Boys, Feet

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• Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Holy Ground, Dancing

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dance, Dancing, World

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Wall, Museums

  Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”

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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, Dancing

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