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1. Dance to express not to impress

2. Those who complain the sun has gone down, have obviously never danced in the rain.

3. We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. (Nietzsche)

4. If you have to ask me why I dance; you'll never understand.

5. That which cannot be spoken can be sung; that which cannot be sung can be danced.

6. Life's a dance; you learn as you go.

7. I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more than to be a good dancer. (Nietzsche)

8. Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

9. The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

10. Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance. (Oprah)

11. Dance isn't a form it's a way of life.

12. Dancers are the athletes of God. (Albert Einstein)

13. We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams." "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.(Agnes De Mille)

14. If dancing were any easier it would be called football.

15. The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.(Doris Humphrey)

16. The people who do not dance are the dead. (Jerry Rose of Dance Caravan)

17. You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat

18. It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.

19. Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

20. Your love for yourself is only shown when you are dancing freely.

21. Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience. (M. Louis)

22. When in doubt......dance!

23. Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?

24. A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning. (Pamela Brown)

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25. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance. (Shirley Maclaine)
 
26. You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.

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

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

29. 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. (Jaques D'ambroise)

30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. (Graham)

31. In dancing, the women usually know the steps and the men know the holds.

32. I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. (George Balanchine)
 
33. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth. (Mark Twain)

34. When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.(Bill Austin)

35. The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...Bodies never lie. (Agnes De Mille)

36. We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. (Japanese Proverb)

37. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! (Constanze)

38. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. (Ted Shawn) 39.There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Vicki Baum)

40. Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. (W.H. Auden)

41. Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. (Samuel Beckett)

42. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. (Havelock Ellis)

43. To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. (Hopi Indian Saying)

44. You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.(Merce Cunningham)

45. People don't stop dancing because they get too old; people get too old because they stop dancing.

46. Bailas como sos (you dance who you are). (Nito Garcia, Argentine Tango Master)

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

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