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“If you can walk, you can run.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'”

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Author:David Guetta

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

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

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”

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Author:Elvis Costello

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.”

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Book:Moral essays

Source: Moral essays

“We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.”

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Book:Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864

Source: Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864

“The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.”

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Author:Ezra Pound