Quotes by Dancers - Page 2

I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.
Usher Raymond
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
Michael Jackson
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
Katherine Dunham
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
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
Agnes De Mille
I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.
Meg Howrey
I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.
Martha Graham
Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.
Katherine Dunham
Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.
Paul Taylor
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
Martha Graham
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
Carol Haney
The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed to using them. But, I figured that after a few hours of sitting in a wheelchair...I would switch back...in a flash.
Sarah Todd Hammer
I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919)
Liane de Pougy
The bigger the star, the bigger the target.
Michael Jackson
we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn
Don Campbell
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.
Gene Kelly
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
In every situation, at the beginning or end of the workday, you have a choice. You can look back or you can look forward. My advice: look forward. Always think about the next day. Don't go into the studio thinking, 'Hmmm, let's see what I was doing yesterday?' It takes more energy to twist yourself around and look back that it does to face forward.
Twyla Tharp
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.
Don Campbell
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land,And how many strugles must that be?Before we choose to live the profits planEverybody sing- Every day create your History,Every path you take you're leaving your legacyEvery soldier dies in his gloryEvery legend tells of conquest and liberty.
Michael Jackson
My motto: sans limites.
Isadora Duncan
I kept wanting to go back on the stage and do it again since I had so much fun and felt so accomplished. It seemed that I had regained a lot of the confidence that I knew I had years before when I performed onstage all the time.
Sarah Todd Hammer
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 single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
Merce Cunningham
I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn’t think you have a brain in your head.
Ann Miller
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.
Michael Jackson
I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
Michael Jackson
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
Michael Jackson
The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.
Thomas Warfield
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
It's so easy to find reasons for why I am excused to be unsatisfied with the moment. As people, we often look to the future saying I'll be happy when… I'll be happy when I graduate, I'll be happy when I am thin, I'll be happy when I get a car… and so on. But why postpone happiness. Why not find joy in the journey of life. We need to find joy in the simple, ordinary events that make up the everyday because that is what we get the most of.
Lindsey Stirling
Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the Minneapolis StarTribune that when his body was found in the elevator at Paisley Park, "Prince was wearing a black shirt and pants - both were on backward - and his socks were inside out."This made no sense to me. The sheer irony of it broke my heart all over again.
Mayte Garcia
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Michael Jackson
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Michael Jackson
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?
Meg Howrey
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.
Sarah Todd Hammer
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
Bill T. Jones
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
Patrick Swayze
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
Twyla Tharp
Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.
Every male ballet dancer
All of us are products of our childhood.
Michael Jackson
While my body might say, "I'm small and vulnerable," my hair warns, "DON'T MESS WITH ME.
Lindsey Stirling
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.
Cheryl Burke
Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h
Jennifer Lopez
I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.
Chris Brown
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell
In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.
Michael Jackson
Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI
Sarah Todd Hammer
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Michael Jackson
If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!
Shobana