Quotes on Dance

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it makes you a strong director.

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.