Quotes about dance
dance way machines
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. Twyla Tharp
dance believe thinking
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it. Twyla Tharp
dance kids thinking
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come. Twyla Tharp
dance dancing splits
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. Twyla Tharp
dance knows know-how
I do everything I know how in a dance. Twyla Tharp
dance moving thinking
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. Twyla Tharp
dance dream becoming-the-best
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer. Twyla Tharp
dance wall thinking
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. Twyla Tharp
dance running art
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination. Twyla Tharp
dance dancer
I dance with the dancers. Walt Whitman
dance believe men
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. Walt Whitman
dance helping-others giving
When I give, I give myself. Walt Whitman
dance sexy dancing
Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive. Sandra Bullock
dance done tables
I've done everything but tap dance across the table. Rod Paige
dance real thinking
Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife... Robert Smith Surtees
dance reading cooking
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. Sarah Zettel
dance too-much ifs
You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head. Yoko Ono
dance drinking body
I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance. Willie Stargell
dancer natural
I am not a natural dancer. Ricki Lake
dance ballet sometimes
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. Robert Caro
dance talent wonderful
Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent. Tad Williams
dancer terrible
I'm a terrible dancer. Rupert Friend
dance dancing sufi
Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi
dance lost-love sufi
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, Rumi
dance passion pieces
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. Rumi
dance lost-love sufi
In your beauty, how to make poems. Rumi
dance dancing noise
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. Rumi
dance just-dance
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God. Rumi
dance age awareness
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance. Rudolf Nureyev
dance soul body
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. Rudolf Nureyev
dance dancing body
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. Rudolf Nureyev
dance dumb ballet
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? Rudolf Nureyev
dance teacher class
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. Rudolf Nureyev