Dance quotes
May 20, 2013
The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. It turns the body to liquid steel. It makes it vibrate like a guitar. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.
- Pearl Primus
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
- Wordsworth
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
- Lord Chesterfield
Some people march to a different drummer-and some people polka.
- Los Angeles Times Syndicate
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
- Toni Bentley
Dancing, the child of Music and of Love.
- Sir John Davies
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
- Jane Austen
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
- Alain Locke
- Pearl Primus
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
- Wordsworth
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
- Lord Chesterfield
Some people march to a different drummer-and some people polka.
- Los Angeles Times Syndicate
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
- Toni Bentley
Dancing, the child of Music and of Love.
- Sir John Davies
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
- Jane Austen
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
- Alain Locke