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

How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
Bette Midler

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille

Dancing is poetry of the foot.
John Drydan

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
Isadora Duncan

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.
Sweetpea Tyler

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
William Shakespeare

You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching and love like it’s never going to hurt.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Christopher Morley

May you – Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it’s being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman.

The loneliness was still there, but it was getting louder and easier to dance to.

Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.
James Brown

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if you have never been hurt, and Dance as if no one is watching.

When the music changes, so does the dance.
African Proverb

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
Samuel Beckett

Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to be unconfined.
Mark Twain

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
Lord Byron

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
Agnes De Mille

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
Susan Polis Shutz

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
Constanze

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.
Mr. Miyagi

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
William Stafford

If to dance is to dream, then you make dreams come true.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Charles Baudelaire

Dance is the only art wherein we ourselves are the stuff in which it is made.

I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
George Balanchine

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is an art that imprints the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
Shirley Maclaine

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
Simon Fowler

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
George Balanchine

Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last.

If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
Glade Byron Addams
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.
Shanna LaFleur

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.
Mata Hari

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
Robert Alton Harris

Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy.
John Northbrooke

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis

Great dancers aren’t great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.
Hans Bos

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
Martha Graham

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Ruth St. Denis

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
Martha Graham

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
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A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.
Pamela Brown

Dance is the landscape of a man’s soul.

Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.
Jamaican Proverb

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
Martha Graham

Shake it ’til the moon becomes the sun.
Vada Nobles

It’s hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa! Where’s my wallet? But, hey this song is funky…
Mitch Hedberg