Dancing Sayings and Quotes

Dancing is art in motion, performance art if you prefer. It doesn’t require any equipment, just yourself and tune of choice. Cut a rug with the collection of insightful and humorous dancing quotes below.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
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
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. Terri Guillemets
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. Isadora Duncan
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi
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
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. Robert Frost
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you. Louis Horst
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place? Judith Jamison
Dancing is 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
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. Charles Baudelaire
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. Robert Brault
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. Peter Saint James
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. Indian Proverb
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. Terence
Dance isn't something that can be explained in words. It has to be danced. Paige Arden
Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance. Alarmel Valli
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham
The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations Maurice Bjart
Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion. Scott Nilsson
Dance is like life, it exists as you're flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done. Jerome Robbins
Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. Fred Astaire
The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself. La Meri
He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor. Hindu Proverb
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. George Carlin
To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul. Eugene Louis Faccuito
I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. Pina Bausch
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer? Feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do. Marcia Hayde
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. Albert Einstein
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. Henry Fielding
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Jane Austen
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. W.H. Auden
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Kurt Vonnegut
Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing. Twyla Tharp
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Dave Barry
How can we know the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. unknown
Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. Kristy Nilsson
Dancing is silent poetry. Simonides
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. Samuel Beckett
Dance every performance as if it were your last. Erik Bruhn
Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear
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. Michael Jackson
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. Martha Graham
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
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
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. Oprah Winfrey
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
In a society that worships love, freedom, and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be. Martha Graham
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
If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing. Melody Carstairs
If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing. Judith Jamison
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? Michael Jackson
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune. Deepak Chopra
It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face. Dan Pearce
Where words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine
For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought Søren Kierkegaard
Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. Susan Polis Schutz
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. Amit Ray
It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. Xiaolu Guo
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. Steve Maraboli
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. Rabindranath Tagore
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. Martha Graham
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan W. Watts
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. Jerry Seinfeld
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. James Brown