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Dancing Quotes

1.
Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
Lewis Grizzard

Baptists never engage in carnal relations while vertical; they fear being mistaken for capering.
Authors on Dancing Quotes: Martha Graham Rajneesh Curt Sachs Michael Jackson Fred Astaire Julianne Hough Twyla Tharp Jillian Hervey Isadora Duncan William Shakespeare Jane Austen Rumi Suzanne Farrell Gene Kelly Anton du Beke Deborah Bull Friedrich Nietzsche Elvis Presley Plato Minzy Moliere Judith Jamison Cassandra Clare Charles Baudelaire Jamake Highwater Neil Gaiman Merce Cunningham Chubby Checker Madonna Ciccone Gerald Jonas Hilda Doolittle Anna Pavlova Margot Fonteyn
2.
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.
Pina Bausch

3.
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.
Steve Paxton

'Individual dancing does not exist: the dancer performs with the ground: add another individual and you have a quartet: each dance with one another and each with the ground.'
4.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Charley Harper

A gaggle of flirting flamingos is wild, ardent, rosy chaos-a frenzied frolic-froggle-a dissonant dancehall of frenetic feetwork, vivacious plumes, and flamingo chatter.
5.
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
Pina Bausch

6.
The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.
Gabrielle Roth

7.
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
John Keats

The swaying poppies yielded A gentle zephyr, serenading my spirit.
8.
Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
Gabrielle Roth

Reciting, crooning, narrating and quietude are the four essential remedial remedies.
9.
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.
Oliver Sacks

10.
Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.
Nachman of Breslov

Develop a practice of crooning. It will reinvigorate you and bring elation. Cultivate a custom of dancing. It will counter gloominess and scatter difficulty.
11.
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
Paulo Coelho

12.
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
Richard Bangs

Unruly streams are nature's rebels, challenging physics, prancing to their own melodies, disregarding humankind's power, perpetually eroding, and ultimately invariably conquering.
13.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince

All these unmusical, unrhythmic, scantily-clad critics who proclaim my albums are substandard. Why should I grant them any credence?
14.
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth

Swaying gracefully in the wind.
15.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
Anna Pavlova

16.
One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.
Sarah Sutton

17.
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
Maurice Bejart

18.
Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.
Fred Astaire

19.
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
Kabir

20.
Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.
J. Cole

21.
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe

22.
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.
Isadora Duncan

23.
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Aamir Khan

24.
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
Epicurus

25.
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan

26.
I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
Pina Bausch

27.
Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.
Mod Sun

28.
Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.
Debbie Reynolds

29.
I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.
Rajneesh

30.
Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.
Garth Stein

31.
The only way to do it is to do it.
Merce Cunningham

32.
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh

33.
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Myrna Loy

34.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Charles Baudelaire

35.
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.
Wernher von Braun

36.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Martha Graham

37.
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
Isadora Duncan

38.
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.
Louis Horst

39.
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Twyla Tharp

40.
Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.
Fred Astaire

41.
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Martha Graham

42.
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.
Ellen Muth

43.
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.
George Balanchine

44.
A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
Farid al-Din Attar

45.
Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em. I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some. Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb... Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.
E-40

46.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.
Fred Astaire

47.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen

48.
Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.
Jerome Robbins

49.
Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.
Merce Cunningham

50.
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi