Home / Topics / Dance Quotes

Dance Quotes

Browse 2342 quotes about Dance.

Dance Quotes

“My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.”

Way Inspirational Audience Havens Gay Grateful Dance I Am Grateful

Author:George Michael

“I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.”

Long Inspiration Wanted Break Doubt Records Married Decided Dance No Doubt

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”

Inspirational Children Drama Theater Dance Vaudeville

Author:James Broughton

“When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.”

Inspirational Years Two Left Acting Class New York Involved Speech Army Theater Wings Dance Two Years Fencing

Author:James Earl Jones

“And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.”

Inspirational Trying Kind Helping Next One Thing Dance Sentences Help Me Going Away Paragraph Vanilla

Author:Jeff Daniels

“I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.”

Inspirational Wanted Dance

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.”

People Inspirational Use Body Realizing Steps Watches Movement Expression Genius Ultimate Dance

Author:Jude Law

“My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'”

Inspirational Firsts Stars Boys Dancing Dance Dancing With The Stars

Author:Julianne Hough

“There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.”

Inspirational Class Dance Studios Mum Costumes

Author:Julianne Hough

“My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.”

Inspirational Mother Interest Sun Modern Shots Dance Rockets Atonement Synagogue Charleston Sun Set Modern Woman

Author:Lionel Blue

“I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.”

Inspirational Feels I Can Waiting Dance Dance Floor

Author:Paula Abdul

“It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.”

Inspirational Dance Bars Get Up Guts

Author:Piper Perabo

“If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.”

Ifs Inspirational Past Situation Records Hot Dance Albums

Author:Puff Daddy

“Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.”

Inspirational Mean Stage Dance

Author:Rachel Stevens

“The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.”

Inspirational Feels Sometimes Stage Like You Dance Notes Ballet

Author:Robert Caro

“I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.”

Inspirational Wells I Can Dance Snakes

Author:Robin Williams

“We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.”

People Inspirational Dance

Author:Ruben Blades

“When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.”

Inspirational Reading Middle Cooking Dance Reading Books Eastern Keyboards Tai Chi

Author:Sarah Zettel

“Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.”

Inspirational Bigs Guy Differences Dance Latin American Guys

Author:Sofia Vergara

“Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.”

Inspirational Looks Stuff Dance Leaving Awkward Pretentious

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.”

Inspirational Littles Different House Interesting Scene Dance Really Interesting Trance

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.”

People Inspirational Mind Reality Type Dance Entertainment Available

Author:Tina Yothers

“There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.”

Ifs Inspirational Prayer Struggle Rain Dance Knees Farmers Ranchers Farmers And Ranchers

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.”

Body Sports Dance Drinking

Author:Willie Stargell

“In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.”

Inspirational Use Body Wanted Voice Party Acting Dance Your Body

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.”

Inspirational Children Results Struggle Limits Dance Caring Setting Settings Appropriate Unhappiness Unnecessary Avoiding Child Care Power Struggle Caretakers

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“I only dance when I go out.”

Inspirational Dance

Author:Diane Kruger

“When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.”

Young Class Mom Dance My Mom Dance Class

Author:Jeff Bridges

“When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.”

Inspirational I Can Moments Hands Song Three Water Morning Beats Dancing Dance My Favorite Clock Bottles Favorite Song Water Bottles

Author:Jordin Sparks

“With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.”

Inspirational Energy Dance Excited Nerves

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.”

Years Done Company Pieces Years Ago Dance Being Done Choreography

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.”

Ifs Inspirational Company Standards Dance Artistic Expensive

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“People dance at any age.”

People Inspirational Age Dance

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!”

Inspirational Lasts Easy Water Break Week Minutes Tough Dance Related Dancer Zumba

Author:Patti Stanger

“I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.”

Inspirational Mind Believe Heart I Believe Virtue Blood My Heart Beats Dance Pulse

Author:Robert Fulghum

“I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.”

Want Dance Dare I Hate You

Author:Beverly Williams

“My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.”

Light Moving Dance Shed Provoking

Author:Dwight Rhoden

“Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.”

Feels Artist Passion Responsibility Vision Discipline Dancing Dance Daily Life Routine

Author:Merrill Brockway

“To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.”

Knows Facts Action Life Is Process Movement Dancing Dance Metaphor Oneself Celebrate Knowing Oneself

Author:Sherman Paul

“Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.”

Mean Has Beens Art Whole Dancing Dance Gestures Representation Posture

Author:Plato

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

Way Soul Secret Music Dance Rhythm Songwriting Wise Man Once Said Secret Love Inspirational Music Greek Philosopher Dance Music Music Soul Music And Dance Secret Places Song And Dance Music Speaks Notes Music

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.”

Way Made Ability Adversity Dancing Dance Limitation Ballet

Author:Andrew Asnes

“Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.”

Ifs Children Teach Grace Wonderful Discipline Dance Manners Dancer Ballet

Book:Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

Source: Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

“The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.”

Art Soul Influence Divine Art Is Dancing Dance Gift From God

Author:Plato

“There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.”

Suffering Taste Dance Decline Neglected Grassroots Dazzle Classical Dance

Author:Kanak Rele

“A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.”

Inspirational Ideas Body Realizing Flow Dancing Dance Communicate Choreographers

Author:Marcia Siegel

“Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.”

Should Body Easy Dance Supple

Author:Socrates

“I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.”

Thinking Play Form Expression Ultimate Dance Productions Theatre Sequence

Author:Valerie Weiss

“Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

Art Made Dream Speak Stuff Challenges Feet Communication Dancing Dance Ballet Inevitability Just Dance Inspirational Dance

Author:Constanze Mozart

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

Arms Dancing Dance Legs Merit Dancer Ballet Being Human Just Dance Inspirational Dance Arms And Legs Funny Dance Classical Dance Dance Performance

Book:The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo