1,434 Quotes About Dance

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

I don't know what to think about this, whether it's a serious problem or not. What it seems to me is just a continuation of the song and dance we're getting from Jackson County.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.