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.
I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue β that I had to do the job myself.
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of heart, of soul. And if the world lose that, I think the world is doomed.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
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