Dance Quotes

The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

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 like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

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

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

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

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

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.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

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

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

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

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.