It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
Interpretation
Creation and mastery require patience and dedication.
This quote by Fred Astaire emphasizes the importance of taking the necessary time and effort to achieve mastery in any art form, particularly in dance. It suggests that creating something truly remarkable and memorable is a process that cannot be rushed, and it highlights the value of patience and practice in achieving excellence.
In practice
During an inspirational speech about the arts at a school, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of practice and patience.
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.
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 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.
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.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.
I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.
I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
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