Dance Quotes and Sayings...

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Fred Astaire "Dancing is a sweat job"

 

 

Anna Pavlova "Master technique and then forget about it and be natural."

 

 

Gwen Verdon "Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder".

 

 

Nicholas Brothers "We can't do those routines any more; we don't want to, & I'll tell you why - it hurts!"

 

 

Mario Robau "Dance is the only sport I know, where a man can touch a woman over most parts of her body, and she thanks you for it afterwords"

 

 

Kenny Wetzel (on California class rotation introductions) "Introduce Yourself" ... "You could be dancin' with your future Ex-Husband"

 

 

Myrna Loy "Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

 

 

M.A. Ham (The Modern Dance) 1916 "There are only two places where indiscriminate hugging is tolerated the brothel and the ballroom."

 

 

a Radcliffe president "Whatever you find to do in life, make sure it's something you're passionate about,
because you'll be competing against people who are" .

 

 

Ninette de Valois (1918) "The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs." (a dance teacher)

 

 

Unknown Remember "Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic." (I luv this one)

 

 

M.B. Gilbert "The tree of knowledge, blasted by desputes, Produces sapless leaves instead of fruits"

 

 

M.B. Gilbert "One cannot become master of an art, without a knowledge of its technique"

 

 

Carlo Blasis "The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises"

 

 

Mrs. Lilly Grove (1907) "A youth who is unskilled in the dance finds little favour with the women"

 

 

Plato "In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance"

 

 

Only in America ... are there handicap parking places in front of Dance Studios and skating rinks.

 

 

Plato "So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well"

 

 

Unknown Work like you dont need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobodys looking.

 

 

Unknown "A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

 

 

'Débat de la Demoiselle et de la Bourgeoise' the latter accuses the gentlewoman of late rising, whereupon she replies: "No; but we must spend our evening in dancing, and cannot do as you who go to bed the same time as your hens" (c.1400s?)

 

 

Ovid (1878), watching Kate Vaughan "Si vox est, canta; si mollia brachia, salta," (If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.)

 

 

Unknown "If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you."

 

 

Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" "God match me with a good dancer"

 

 

George Carlin "Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."

 

 

Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" "Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig"

 

 

Shakespere -"Hamlet" "You Jig, you amble, and you lisp"

 

 

Moore- "Odes of Anacreon" "Memory wakes her magic trance, And wings me lightly through the dance"

 

 

Solomon - 1000 B.C. "There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a timeto dance"

 

 

Old Persian Proverb "He who danceth not, knoweth not the ways of life"

 

 

Confucius "A Nation's character is typified by its dancers"

 

 

St. Chrysostom "Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels"

 

 

Sir Francis de Sales "A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession"

 

 

Anonymous ABOUT BALANCE: "Crane's stand on one leg, but cannot dance a step"

 

 

Plato "All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing"

 

 

Morrocco "The dancer dies, but does not forget the shaking of his shoulders"

 

 

Anonymous "He that lives in hope, dances without music"

 

 

Cicero "No Sober Person Dances"

 

 

Nero "Give Me, your Pantomime, No gift could delight me more!"

 

 

Unknown "Dance, a Vertical expression of a Horizontal desire"

 

 

Perrot & Robert (1845) "Tell me how you do the polka, and I will tell you how you love"

 

 

Mae West "Come Up and See Me Sometime"

 

 

UnknownMagazine Title "Uncle Sambo -- Mad for Mambo"

 

 

Lady Duff-Gordon (On sinking of the Titanic, a passenger) "It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it"

 

 

Liebman "It's better to do an old thing thats good, than a new thing thats bad"

 

 

Amelia (1796) "Nature gives us limbs and art teaches us to use them" (from the Philidelphia Minerva Mag)

 

 

The Cotillion "He's Holding a Candle For You"

 

 

Bob Thaves
(Frank & Ernst cartoon)
"Sure Fred was great, but don't forget, Ginger did everything he did backwards
and... in high heels"

 

 

Ramon Navarro "Better Dancing makes Better Lovers" (Dance Magazine-1930's)

 

 

Theophile Gautier "Art For Art's Sake"

 

 

Evaluation of Fred Astaire's very first screen test: "Can't act!. Can't sing!. Balding!. Can dance a little"

 

 

John Milton, L'Allegro "Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe."

 

 

Milton "Come, Knit hands and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round"

 

 

Tully "He is not a sober man that danceth"

 

 

Winston Churchill (on being at a party...) "You're drunk" to which churchill replied "You're ugly. Tomorrow, I'll be sober"

 

 

Theodore Roosevelt
(apply this to dance contests)
"Far better it is, To dare mighty things, To win glorious triumphs, Even though checkered with failure. Than to live in that grey twilight, that knows neither victory Nor defeat"

 

 

Anatole Chujoy - 1949 "A great art is never a product of any one artist, but the temper of the folk and the times"

 

 

Locke "Nothing appears to me to give children so much confidence, and so to raise them to the conversation of those above their age, as dancing"

 

 

Unknown Writer "As barbarians are observed to have the strongest passions, so they are also observed to be the most easily affected by sounds, and the most habitually addicted to dancing"

 

 

Pope "They move easiest who have learned to dance"

 

 

Edward Ferrero "On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined"

 

 

Mae West "I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it"
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