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Quotes on Dance

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You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
William ShakespeareRead
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
William ShakespeareRead
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
PlatoRead
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha GrahamRead
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeRead
The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
Babatunde OlatunjiRead
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent PealeRead
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf NureyevRead
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail BaryshnikovRead
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
ConfuciusRead
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Steve MartinRead
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
Muhammad AliRead
Many a maiden,_x000D_ With white feet glancing light as air, _x000D_ Made happy music through the gloom.
EuripidesRead
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
David LettermanRead
Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
Ambrose BierceRead
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
Patrick SwayzeRead
Dancing up the full moon_x000D_ _x000D_ Round some fair new altar_x000D_ _x000D_ Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SapphoRead
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
Rudolf NureyevRead
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.
Bob FosseRead

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