Top # 100+ Famous And Inspirational Dance Quotes

Famous And Inspirational Dance Quotes

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

Dancing is the world’s favorite metaphor. – Kristy Nilsson

To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut-outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

“To Live is to Dance, To Dance is to Live” — Snoopy

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

“In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby

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

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream about it, desire it.

“We’re fools whether we dance or not; so we might as well dance.”

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

I could believe only in a God who would know how to dance. ~Friedrich

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. – Mata Hari

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.  — Susan Polis Schutz

“Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”

You’ve never felt pain until you’ve walked in a dancer’s shoes

“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.”

“Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.” – Anna Pavlova

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.

“Let this day be lost to us on which we did not dance once.”

Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain.

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.

“Dance- even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.”

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. ~Dave Barry

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life.  I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance.

“To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.”

The Ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time.

To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

To dance is to reach for a word that doesn’t exist, to sing the heartsong of a thousand generations, to feel the meaning of a moment in time.

“Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self, the person you are.”

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.” – Martha Graham

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. – John Dryden

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

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.

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health – it rusts your spirit and your hips.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Every time I dance I turn into a better version of me.

“Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.”

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

To touch, to move, to inspire. This is the true gift of dance.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~Martha Graham

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

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett

It’s extremely arrogant and foolish to think you can ever outwit your audience.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.  — Agnes De Mille

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer.  For the dance is his ideal.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.