Dance Quotes

Dance quotes

September 8, 2010

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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
- Fred Astaire


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In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
- Alice Abrams


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Dancing is wonderful training for girls. It's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
- Christopher Morley


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But when you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
- Shakespeare


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


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


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Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance.....is a celebration of that miracle.
- Martha Graham


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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
- Martha Graham


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On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
- Mark Twain


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Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.
- Judith Jamison