Dancing - Dance Quotes

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.”

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance Let’s face the music and dance.

I always liked the idea of making a record which was repetitive, like an African tribal chant. That’s the secret of all great dance music: it’s tribal. People fall into it naturally because they knew the dance before they were born.

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music… Bodies never lie.

Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh’d and danc’d and talk’d and sung.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Men and women danced together, women danced together, men danced together, as hazard had brought them together. At first, they were a mere storm of coarse red caps and coarse woollen rags; but, as they filled the place, and stopped to dance about Lucie, some ghastly apparition of a dance-figure gone raving mad arose among […]