Breakdancing Quotes:

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

- Crazy Legs

topic: Practice, Dancer, Progress, Messing Up, Bboy

As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

- Jose Parla

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Art, New York, Breakdancing

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Freestyle, Breakdancing

If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency.

- Richard M. Weiner

topic: Keys, Taught, Financial, Breakdancing

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

- Vanilla Ice

source: Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

topic: Girl, Years, Jam, Breakdancing

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

- Houston Alexander

source: Source: www.sbnation.com

topic: Hip Hop, Battle, Negative, Breakdancing

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

- Chris Frantz

topic: New York, Kids, People, Breakdancing

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

- Fatboy Slim

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

topic: Thinking, People, Records, Breakdancing

The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing.

- Ari Up

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Girl, Groups, Naked, Girl Groups, Breakdancing

Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band or played anything. I just picked up music from breakdancing really, that's what got me to listen to music, and in general I was just a creative guy.

- Lunice

topic: Thinking, People, Creative, Breakdancing

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

- Kurtis Blow

topic: Christmas, Rap, Records, Breakdancing