dancequotes

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of all life ~ Dr. Maya V. Patel

To sing well and to dance well is to be well educated ~ Plato

The real reason I want to dance is because I want to explode ~ Bill Evans

When you perform...you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it's yours nightly ~ Agnes De Mille

Someone once said to me that dancers work as hard as policemen: always alert, always tense. But you see, policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time! ~ George Balanchine

All there is to be said for work as opposed to dancing is that it is so much easier ~ Heywood Broun

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted to do was dance ~ Rudolf Nureyev

Dance is the song of the body. Either of joy or pain ~ Martha Graham

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

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance ~ George Balachine

For me, dance is a nutrient, you know, it's something that I need, it's something like, you know, the air we breathe, the food we eat. These things are necessities. These are things that we need for survival. For me, dance is a nutrient. It's my nourishment ~ Gregg Burge

There is a dancer buried in even the fattest of us ~ Pamela Brown

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters; Dance, dance, dance till you drop ~ W.H. Auden, from Death's Echo

There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in it's sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths ~ Martha Graham

And what do you think is your ulitimate goal?
I should think a nice little dance in heaven.
UNKNOWN DANCER STRUCK DOWN BY POLIO IN 1953.