Dance Quotes

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

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

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

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.

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 can't dance.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'