Dance Quotes

Welcome to my dance quotes page. I love to dance, there is something so freeing about letting yourself move to music. It feels like you are flying and if you really get into it, it can feel like heaven. These quotes are about the beauty of dance.

• DANCE QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
  Author Unknown


• Dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
  William W. Purkey


• Let us read and let us dance -two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
  Voltaire


• You must have chaos within you to give rise to a dancing star.
  Friedrich Nietzsche


• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing.It's the rhythm of your life.It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
  Jaques D'ambroise


• Dancers are athletes of God.
  Albert Einstein


• Dance isn't a form it's a way of life.
  Author Unknown


• You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.
  Author Unknown


• Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to be over, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
  Author Unknown


• A star danced, and under that was I born.
  William Shakespeare


• I would believe only in a god that knows how to dance.
  Friedrich Nietzsche


• There are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words.
  Doris Humphrey


• When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.
  William Shakespeare


• Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy--it becomes possible. The effort involved in making a dancer's body is so long and relentless, in many instances painful, the effort to maintain the technique so grueling that unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and the punishing, the pace could not be maintained.
  Agnes de Mille


• Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.
  Serpent of the Nile


• Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
  Anonymous


• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
  Martha Graham


• Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.
  Sweetpea Tyler


• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
  Mikhail Baryshnikov


• To learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,the principles are the same.
  Martha Graham






• The people who do not dance are the dead.
  Jerry Rose


• Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
  Anonymous


• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.
  D. Gere


• You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat.
  Author Unknown


• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too...
  Merce Cunningham


• 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


• It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun the joy of dance.
  Martha Graham


• Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
  George Borodin


• The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
  Bill Irwin


• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
  Martha Graham


• If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream about it,--desire it.
  Christa Justus


• Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.
  Merryl Brockway


• Thousands of emotions well up inside me through out the day. They are released when I dance.
  Abraham Lincony


• Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
  Ted Shawn

Thank you for passing by my dance quotes. These dance quotes are for the lovers of dance who realize what a spiritual thing dance is. These dance quotes are a reflection of the way dance is so much more than you think it touches the soul. Till next time and don’t forget to dance your life away

Return from Dance Quotes To Homepage