Dance Quotes

Some of the dance quotes we have collected over the years.
Please feel free to send in your favourite quotes about dance or anything else you really love.

  • “Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” - Ted Shawn Time, 25 July 1955
  • “Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.” - George Balanchine
  • “There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” - Vicki Baum
  • “To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.” - Agnes De Mille
  • “Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” - Faith Whittlesey
  • “Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.” - Unknown
  • “I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.” - George Balanchine
  • “It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.” - Shanna LaFleur
  • “In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.” - Martha Graham
  • “It is of course possible to dance a prayer.” - Glade Byron Addams
  • “Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
    Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.” - W.H. Auden
  • “Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.” - Charles Baudelaire
  • “Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.” - Samuel Beckett
  • “Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips.” - Adabella Radici
  • “Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” - John Dryden
  • “Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.” - Martha Graham
  • “The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” - Mata Hari
  • “Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.” - Kristy Nilsson
  • “Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."?” - Dave Sokolowski

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