Dance Quotations | Page 3

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.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

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.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

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.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

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

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

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

I see dance as glue for a community.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

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.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

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

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.

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

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

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

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

I've been blessed with a lot of things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance - which past girlfriends always found hilarious.

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.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

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.

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.

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

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

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!

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.