I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Interpretation
Fred Astaire emphasizes the pure joy of dancing without the need for justification or expression.
In this quote, Fred Astaire shares his perspective on dancing as a simple and enjoyable activity rather than a form of self-expression or a competitive endeavor. His approach highlights the inherent joy and freedom found in movement, suggesting that one does not need to ascribe deeper meaning to an enjoyable experience.
In practice
Use this quote during a dance performance to highlight the purity of movement.
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.
It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.
Either the camera will dance, or I will.
Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.
When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.
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