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"I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown."-Margaret Atwood
"Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop."-W. H. Auden
"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
"A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech."-Francis Bacon
"Dance is music made visible"-George Balanchine
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who has to dance"-George Balanchine
"Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time."-George Balanchine
"The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself."-George Balanchine
"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."-Vicki Baum
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."-Mihkail Baryshnikov
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."-Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals."-Charles Baudelaire
"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."-Samuel Beckett
"Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other."-George Borodin
�While I dance I cannot judge. I cannot hate. I cannot seperate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance."-Hans Bos
"Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing."-James Brown
"Dance can give the inarticulate a voice."-Pamela Brown
"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfind!"-Lord Byron
"Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray."-Thomas Campion
"Just remember when you're not practicing that someone somewhere is and when you meet them, they will win."-Jaques D'Amboise
"So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance."-Jacques d'Amboise
"Dance, an art form; the body, an instrument. Learn to play the instrument so you can master the art form."-Debbie Dee
"Dance is a little insanity that does us all a lot of good."-Edward Demby
"You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it."-Edwin Denby
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."-Ruth St. Denis
"When you dance, you don't sweat: you glow."-Didi
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."-John Dryden
"Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself."-Jean Dubuffet
"Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body."-Isadora Duncan
"There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul."-Isadora Duncan
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."-Isadora Duncan
"Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master."-Suzanne Farrell
"There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries"-D. Gere
"Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer."-Sylvie Guillem
"Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain."-Martha Graham
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul".-Martha Graham