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“I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.”

I Can Use Can Do Stage Singing Dancing Dance Tape Singing And Dancing Cartwheels

“Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.”

People Wells Too Much Hair Amount Please Eating Dance Appeals Cake Steak Let Down Pep

Author:Vaughn Monroe

“Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.”

Knows I Can Country States Practice Type Dance Western Tennessee Country Western

Author:Chad Ochocinco

“Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.”

Men Eye Guy Rooms Practice Week Tears Dancing Dance Coaches Brown Relaxed That Guy Lockers Locker Room

Author:Vince Young

“Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.”

Voice Dance Spokes Shore Your Presence

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.”

Littles Long Girl Arms Dance

Author:Alvin Ailey

“I always want to have more dancers in my company.”

Want Company Dance Dancer

Author:Alvin Ailey

“No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.”

Feels Writing Matter Enough No Matter What Dance

Author:Alvin Ailey

“I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.”

Opinion Dancing Dance Physicians Mushrooms

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”

Humans Soul Dancing Dance Ballet Human Soul Just Dance Ballet Dancer Ballet Dance Ballet Teachers

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.”

World Ideas Moments Hands Together Form Next Knowing Balls Dancing Dance Leaving Knowing Each Other

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.”

People Ifs Way Want Helping Shows Care Able Beautiful Black White Audience Mirrors Green Dance Don't Care I Don't Care Dancer Purple Black Or White

Author:Alvin Ailey

“I want people to look like people when they're dancing.”

People Want Looks Dancing Dance

Author:Mark Morris

“Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.”

Joy Growth Music Progress Teaching Dance Celebrate Celebration Choreographers Inspirational Dance

Author:Alvin Ailey

“The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.”

Inspirational Said Sometimes Lord Alive Glory Dance

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”

Inspirational Firsts I Can Ends Night Fall Numbers Audience Laughter Dance Casts Ass Portions Splits Saturday Fever Saturday Night Saturday Night Fever

Author:Adam Garcia

“If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.”

Ifs Want Giving Mirrors Dance Creeps Spotlight Tap Dance Tap Dancers

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.”

World Children Littles Sky Bird And Love Dancing Dance Rounds Shoulders Sunday Bells Fists Silk Parrots

Author:Aime Cesaire

“Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.”

Song Negative Dance

Author:Theophilus London

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

World Stills Dance Flesh Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.”

Firsts Modern Dance Modern Dance

Author:Evan Esar

“Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.”

Wells Girl Dance Intermission

Author:Evan Esar

“Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.”

Wells Heart My Heart Conversation Dancing Dance Enjoyment Heart Ache

Book:The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Source: The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

“Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.”

Beats Dance

Book:Arrow of God

Source: Arrow of God

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.”

Ifs Looks Important Happens Girl Dancing Dance Insane Sober Lovecraft Telling It Like It Is

Author:Chinua Achebe

“All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.”

Devil Standing Dancing Dance

Book:Rabbit is Rich

Source: Rabbit is Rich

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.”

Way Art Movement Stones Dance Tone Muscles Dance Is Life

Author:Baker Brownell

“One you've danced, you always dance.”

Dance

Author:Judith Jamison

“A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.”

Dance Parks Amusement Amusement Parks

Author:Gary Shapiro

“Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.”

People Ifs Looks Running Girl House Boys Doctors Trade Dancing Dance Dancer Invited Despised Spoons Choreography Hummingbirds

Author:Agnes de Mille

“If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.”

Ifs Want Looks Song Nations Pay Attention Politician Dance Folks Folk Songs

Author:Agnes de Mille

“To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.”

Needs Stills Ideas Space Needed Walking Dance Tea Privacy Pot

Book:Dance to the Piper

Source: Dance to the Piper

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

“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.”

“The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.”

Ifs Life Has Beens Lost Acceptance Unique Dance Self Acceptance Love Yourself Fulfilled Loving Yourself Choreography Love Your Self Dancers Inspiration Great Dance

Author:Martha Graham

“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”

Source: Blood Memory

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Inspirational Mean Faces Desire Vision Practice Perfection Dancing Dance Obstacles Generosity Inviting Choreographers Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

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

Men Want Inspirational Needs Reason Motivational Imagination Attitude Dance Reason Why Insightful Ballet My Attitude Just Dance Determination And Success Can Do Attitude Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.”

“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”

Inspirational Heart Kind Dancing Dance Dancer Fever Just Dance Graphs Classical Dance Dance Performance

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.”

Sin Dance Mediocrity

Author:Martha Graham

“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.”

Thinking Inspirational Whole Magic Feet Weight Miracle Dancing Dance Celebration Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“The body is a sacred garment.”

Inspirational Body Health Sacred Dance Health Care Garments

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.”

Inspirational Art Body Creatures Art Is Instruments Dance

Author:Martha Graham

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”

Movement Dancing Dance Revealing Just Dance Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“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.”

Ifs Men Made Beautiful Space Building Materials Dance Architecture Made It One Man His Love Material Things

Author:Martha Graham

“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.”

Want Humans Body Action Human Beings Audience Tree Planets Flower Creatures Behavior Miracle Dance Everyday Wave Dancer Phenomenon Exotic Modern Dance

Author:Martha Graham

“I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.”

Should Humans Art Running Form Imagination Movement Walking Art Is Dance Experts Jumping Refinement

Author:Twyla Tharp

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