Dance Quotes

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Isadora Duncan

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

Julius Kambarge Nyerere

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

David Byrne

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

Andrew Holleran

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Oscar Wilde

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Dick Gregory

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Paulo Coelho

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.

Ernest Hemingway

How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it.

Steve Maraboli

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Martha Graham

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Martha Graham

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

Martha Graham