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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
The body is a sacred garment.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
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.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
I tap dance.
Dance is so joyous.
Polka will never die.
Every savage can dance.
No sane man will dance.
No sober person dances.
Dancing is a sweat job.
Nobody is born a dancer.
All the world's a stage.
Disco is just jitterbug.
My motto - sans limites.
People dance at any age.
I dance with the dancers.
Even the ears must dance.
Dancing is as old as love.
Dance is music made visible
When I give, I give myself.
Bleeding feet will bond us.
I am a cloud - in trousers.
I only dance when I go out.
Come up and see me sometime.
If you can walk, you can run.
Dance on the edge of mystery.
I can't dance to save my life.
See the music, hear the dance.
You live as long as you dance.
