I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
I danced with passion to spite the music.
If you can walk, you can run.
In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.
Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.
When I give, I give myself.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.