Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) French Poet, Art Critic, Essayist, Translator
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant—in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The bear dances but the tamer collects the money.
—Russian Proverb
Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
—Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American Actor, Dancer, Singer
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mother’s womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
Believe me, you can have anything you want—and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
—Indian Proverb
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
—American Indian Proverb
Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.
—Jamaican Proverb
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 (1934–2021) American Dancer, Choreographer
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
—Indian Proverb
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
—Miguel Angel Ruiz (b.1952) Mexican Spiritualist Author
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s a dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Love is the music of the Universe … just dance.
—Unknown
Dancing is a 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 (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
It’s a sin to be poor! He wasn’t referring to moral turpitude, but rather to “the frustration of potentiality”. He believed and taught that, when we establish ourselves in the consciousness of God, the whole universe moves to flow into us with its abundance of life and substance. This is obviously what Jesus had in mind when he said, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well”.
—Unknown
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
You can’t lie when you dance. It’s so direct. You do what is in you. You can’t dance out of the side of your mouth.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actor, Dancer, Author, Activist
If you’ve enjoyed the dance, pay the musicians.
—German Proverb
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
Don’t dance on a volcano.
—French Proverb