Great Dance Quotes:

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Life, Change, Dance, Motivational Dance, Life Journey

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

- Jacques d'Amboise

topic: Dance, Sadness, Expression, Motivational Dance, Dance Is Life

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mystery, Dancers Inspiration, Pointe

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

- Michael Jackson

topic: Dance, Dancing, Sacred, Dance Is Life, Great Dance

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Dancer, Stealing, Great Dance, Ballet Teachers

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

- Gerald Arpino

topic: Dance, Fall, Inspiration, Great Dance

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

- Margot Fonteyn

source: "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

topic: Dance, Art, People, Pretension, Ballet Dancer

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

- William Watson Purkey

topic: Hurt, Like You, Just Live Your Life, Just Living Life, Life Is Beautiful

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

- Vicki Baum

topic: Happiness, Dance, Dancing, Homecoming, Inspirational Dance

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Piano, Play, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

- Sylvie Guillem

topic: Dance, Perfection, Soul, Pointe, Pointe Dancers

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Dance, Dancing, Parent, Great Grandfather, Great Dance

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

topic: Dance, Trying, Motivational Dance, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Sleep, Frustration, Pointe Dancers, Great Dance

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

- Curt Sachs

topic: Dance, Mother, Art, Dance Is Life, Dancers Inspiration

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

source: "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

topic: Inspiring, Dance, Sports, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

- Constanze Mozart

topic: Dream, Art, Communication, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

source: Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

topic: Dance, Passion, Dancing, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Dance

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

- Susan Jaffe

topic: Dance, Cutting, Blood, Inspirational Dance, Pointe Dancers

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

- Martha Graham

source: "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

topic: Life, Dance, Love Yourself, Dancers Inspiration, Love Your Self

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

source: "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

- William Watson Purkey

topic: Heaven, Listening, Earth, Interesting Life, Just Living Life

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Communication, Challenges, Just Dance, Great Dance

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

- Arlene Croce

source: Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

topic: Dance, Eye, Mind, Choreography, Fuse

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Thinking, Interesting, Choreography, Something Interesting

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

- Wendy Buonaventura

topic: Dancing, Great Dance

Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues. But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm. You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.

- Buck Brannaman

topic: Horse, Mean, Thinking, Great Dance

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

topic: Flower, Fall, Heart, Great Dance, Salvage

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

- Carrie Ann Inaba

topic: Senior, Mom, Friday, Stay At Home Mom, Cardio

We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.

- David Wilcock

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Acceptance, Love Acceptance, Great Dance

It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Memories, Essence, Great Dance

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Beautiful, Sleep, Kissing, Rocking Out, Feeling Beautiful