Dance Quotes

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."

 ~Agnes de Mille

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"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."

~Japanese Proverb

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"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

~William Butler Yeats

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”'Let us read and let us dance -

two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”

~Voltaire

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"You must have chaos within you to give rise to

a dancing star.”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There are times when the simple dignity of movement

can fulfill the function of a volume of words.”

~Doris Humphrey

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“When you do dance, I wish you

A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do

Nothing but that.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”

~ Martha Graham

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"I do not try to dance better than anyone else.

I only try to dance better than myself."

~Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique,

they are great because of their passion.”

~Martha Graham

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“Some men have thousands of reasons why

they cannot do what they want to,

when all they need is one reason why they can.”

~ Martha Graham

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“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled,

then something has been lost.”

~ Martha Graham

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“You see, when weaving a blanket,

an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket

to let the soul out.”

~Martha Graham

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“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

~George Bernard Shaw

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,

you'd best teach it to dance."

~George Bernard Shaw