Harold Nicholas quotes

Harold Nicholas quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.”
-- Harold Nicholas

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

#Dance Quotes #Style Quotes #Footwork Quotes
“I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.”
-- Harold Nicholas

#Brother Quotes #People Quotes #Dancer Quotes
“If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.”
-- Harold Nicholas

#Real Quotes #Las Vegas Quotes #Black Quotes

“When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
“The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books
“To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books
“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”
“Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.”
“Isn't television glamourous?”
“Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.”
“Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.”
“We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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