Dance Quotes

DANCE QUOTES

quotations about dance & dancing

Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.

HORACE

Odes

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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Arrow of God

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In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES

The Shapeshifters

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

MARTHA GRAHAM

attributed, It's All About You

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We view dance as a marriage of the representational capacity of language and the rhythmicity of music. This interaction allows people not only to tell stories using their bodies but to do so while synchronizing their movements with others' in a way that fosters social cohesion.

STEVEN BROWN

Scientific American, Jul. 2008

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Dancing is the child of music and love.

A. FANDANGO

"Of Dancing"

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Dance, dance, as long as ye can, We must travel through life, but why make a dead march of it?

ELIZA COOK

"Dancing-Song", Eliza Cook's Journal

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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

BAKER BROWNELL

Art Is Action

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

XIAOLU GUO

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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The dance is four-dimensional art in that it moves concretely in both space and time. For the onlooker, it is an art largely of visual space combined with time. But for the dancer, and this is more important, the dance is more a muscular than a visual space rhythm, a muscular time, a muscular movement and balance. Dancing is not animated sculpture, it is kinesthetic.

BAKER BROWNELL

Art Is Action

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Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;
Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evangeline

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So the sun goes down and the world goes dancing
And the stars come out and they all go dancing
And there is nothing I'd like more
Than a twirl across this rickety old floor

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

"The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing"

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

attributed, Dancing with Natasha

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They have measured many a mile,
To tread a measure with you on this grass.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love's Labour's Lost

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.