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Dance Quotes

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it’s not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

– Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn’t easily distracted.

– Wendy Raquel Robinson

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and… I was 24 or 25, and I’d slam dance in the pit.

– William Forsythe

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

– Simon Le Bon

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

– William Kempe

If you have to tell a story without speaking, it’s sort of like – I come from a dance background, so it’s like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that’s really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I’d like to tap into that world.

– Sami Gayle

A lot of people think I’m gay. I have really red lips, so they say I wear lipstick; they say my dance is very feminine, and a lot of people think I look like a girl. But that’s fine. I take the criticism positively.

– Tiger Shroff

I’m pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I’m a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That’s my brand.

– Xosha Roquemore

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

– Tori Amos

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, ‘This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.’

– Twyla Tharp

When I started making dances in the ’60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

– Twyla Tharp

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people’s minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

– Tina Yothers

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching – great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

– Tammy Blanchard

My first vocation was dance.

– Victoria Abril

If I’m at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it’s not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I’d love to be graceful like that.

– Sierra McCormick

Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don’t want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.

– Tino Sehgal

I’d love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.

– Sharon Draper

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

– Teri Polo

I make sure that I laugh as much as possible, as its the best exercise, and if I’m really feeling the need to do some exercise, I’ll go out with my best girls and dance the night away.

– Sasha Jackson

The chances of a child coming through as I did… the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn’t put them to work.

– Shelley Fabares

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