1,434 Quotes About Dance

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

I only dance when I go out.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.