Tap Dancers Quotes

• I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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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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• I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

  Andy Warhol

  Dancer, Painter, Wanted

  Sandra Brant, Andy Warhol, Elissa Cullman (1977). “Andy Warhol's "Folk and Funk": September 20, 1977-November 19, 1977”

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• A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

  Eleanor Powell

  Dancer, Frustrated, Drummer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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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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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

  Harold Nicholas

  Dance, Style, Footwork

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

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• I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Morning, Growing Up, Dancer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

  Duane Michals

  Mean, Dancer, Needs

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• I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

  Elliott Gould

  Children, Dancer, Precision

  "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.

  Laura Benanti

  Dog, Home, Heart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Disappointment, Children, Ambition

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• I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Order, Feet

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Lying, Hate, Moving

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• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Should Have

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Grandma

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hate, Moving, Player

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