Quotes on Inspirational Dance

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The body says what words cannot.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.