Quotes on Dance

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

Let's face the music and dance.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'