Dance Quotes and Sayings

Dancers are not very different from other artists. They also need inspiration every now and then. And a few simple inspirational quotes can rekindle the enthusiasm of the dancer which can sometimes get drained through a specifically severe course of rehearsals or a frustrating performance. If you are a dancer yourself, you will know exactly what I mean. These dance quotes and phrases are the wise and inspiring words of some of the most brilliant dancers and choreographers.

Dance Quotes About Life

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Dancers are the athletes of God. ~ Albert Einstein

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Castaneda

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~ Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~ Martha Graham

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

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. ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~ Constanze

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~ Agnes de Mille

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~ Terri Guillemets

Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~ Martha Graham

You must have chaos within you to give rise to a dancing star. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a god that knows how to dance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Indian Proverb

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~ Vicki Baum

There are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. ~ Doris Humphrey

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. ~ Vincent Lombardi

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~ John Wain

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Hopi Indian Saying

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. ~ Terence

Dance Quotes that Inspire

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. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz quotes

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. ~ Anonymous

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. ~ George Balanchine

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~ Mata Hari

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~ Peter Saint James

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Personally, I loved each one of these inspirational dance quotes. This proves the power of the written word! These wise words of artists who experienced everything about dancing will continue to inspire the future generations who will take the passion of dance to the next level.