Quotes on Music And Dance

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

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.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

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

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

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

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

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?

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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

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

Let's face the music and dance.