Music And Dance Quotes - Page 3

• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

  George Szell

  Music, Heart, Thinking

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• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Pain, Light

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Children, Kids

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf 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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  I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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• If you can walk, you can run.

  Publilius Syrus

  Music, Dance, Running

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Writing, Winning

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books

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• Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

  Christopher Morley

  Girl, Dance, Men

  Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)

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• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, God, Philosophy

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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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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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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

  Gerry Spence

  Dance, Moving, Dancing

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• When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 134

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• It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Memorable, Take Time

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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Inspiring, Dance

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

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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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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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Dancing, Toes

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• Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Silly, Kitchen

  Shel Silverstein (1999). “The World of Shel Silverstein Fabric Banner”

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