"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…."
-Susan Polis Schutz
"I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance."
-W.H. Auden
"Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot."
-Martha Graham
"Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance…"
-Edgar Degas
"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."
-Merce Cunningham
"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."
-Ted Shawn
"Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance."
-A.D. Posey
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."
-Osho
"It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made."
-Olaotan Fawehinmi
"Life is a dance between what keeps us going and what is holding us back."
-Sesan Kareem
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
-Agnes De Mille
"When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography."
-Iveta Cherneva
"Dance is the art closest to nature, to real life."
-Marty Rubin
"If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution."
-Shah Asad Rizvi
"People dance because dance can change things. One move, can bring people together. One move, can make you believe like there's something more. One move, can set a whole generation free."
-Adam G. Sevani
"Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are on stage being their superselves."
-Paul Taylor
"The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio."
-Edw. C. Youn
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
-Mark Twain
"It takes two to Tao."
-Ana Claudia Antunes
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
"She danced her way right into his heart. Corny, but true."
-Lisa Kessler
"Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance."
-Shah Asad Rizvi
"If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!"
-Craig Ferguson
"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
-Amit Kalantri
"I dance because i dance because I dance."
-Child at class
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."
-Martha Graham
"'Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.'"
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon."
-Melody Lee
"I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be."
-Martha Graham
"Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance."
-James Howe
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance."
-Cynthia Rylant
"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
-William Stafford
"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't"
-David Mitchell
"Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first)."
-John D. Rhodes
"Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment."
-Erol Ozan
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."
-George Balanchine
"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
-Molière
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself."
-Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I can dance beauty into my body."
-Padma Venkatraman
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music."
-Eva Ibbotson
"My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on"
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
"Dancers create magic, so that makes me magical."
-Stephanie Lahart
"When she dances the Universe stops to feel her dance moves!"
-Avijeet Das
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
-Eckhart Tolle
"If you get all tangled up, just tango on."
-Al Pacino
"Lermontov: Why do you want to dance? Vicky: Why do you want to live? Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but... I must. Vicky: That's my answer too."
-The Red Shoes
"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."
-Martha Graham
"The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing."
-Michael Bassey Johnson
"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon."
-Edward Lear
"Come dance with me, he says, taking my hand, and someday I'll explain to him that I already am."
-Erin McCahan
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
-Martha Graham
"The best dancer is the one who isn’t even aware that she is dancing!"
-Mehmet Murat ildan
"I should have danced more when I had no fear of falling."
-Kim Cormack
"Even if you can’t dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can’t sing, you can make some noise."
-Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy."
-Alvin Ailey
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
-George Bernard Shaw
"It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous."
-Martha Graham
"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
-Ann Richards
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."
-Xiaolu Guo
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
-Voltaire
"One should dance while one still can."
-Marty Rubin
"You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man."
-Gene Kelly
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
-Alan W. Watts
"There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands; that is why i dance."
-Paul Bamikole
"Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same."
-Sergei Polunin
"So just bust a move!"
-Ava J. Abramowitz
"There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost."
-Martha Graham
"Truth be told, you gotta dance barefoot if you really want to feel the earth move."
-Edward R. Hackemer