Devotions on Dance

Quotations on Dance

No sane man will dance.
- Cicero
*** My feet are dogs.
- Rudolf Nureyev
*** I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.
- Bob Hope
*** The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
- James Brown
*** In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
- Lincoln Kirstein
*** Dancing is a sweat job.
- Fred Astaire
*** I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.
- Gene Kelly
*** I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
- Gene Kelly
*** I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
- Gene Kelly
*** When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
- Gene Kelly
*** A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
- Josephine Baker
*** A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes de Mille
*** Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
- Agnes De Mille
*** The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
- Agnes De Mille
*** The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
*** The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
- Agnes De Mille
*** To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
- Agnes De Mille
*** When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.
- Agnes De Mille
*** Ballet: Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
- Robin Williams
*** No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
- Martha Graham
*** My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
- Ginger Rogers
*** The only sin is mediocrity.
- Martha Graham
*** Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
- Margot Fonteyn
*** Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
- Isadora Duncan
*** I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
- Fred Astaire
*** I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer.
- Leslie Caron
*** The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari
*** I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!
- Gregory Hines
*** Fred Astaire will never say, though he's always asked, which of his dancing ladies was his favorite partner. If you ask me, he preferred the solo turns.
- Vera-Ellen
*** Modern dancing is old fashioned.
- Samuel Goldwyn
*** I told some school chums I could dance as good as Fred Astaire. And they asked me, if I was that great, why didn't I get into a show? I said I would, so I got myself a job in a show and here I am.
- June Allyson
*** Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
- Ted Shawn
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