150+ Beautiful Quotes About Dancing

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


A Nation’s character is typified by its dancers. – Confucius


And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche


Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all. – Lynda Barr


Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. – James Brown


Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything. – Misty Copeland


Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency. – Shah Asad Rizvi


Classical dancing is like being a mother:  if you’ve never done it, you can’t imagine how hard it is. – Harriet Cavalli


Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms. – Lailah Gifty Akita


Dance – an art form.  The body – an instrument.  Learn to play the instrument and master the art form. – Debbie Dee


Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.     – Steve Maraboli


Dance enables you to find yourself and lose yourself at the same time. – Unknown


Dance every performance as if it were your last. – Erik Bruhn


Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett


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


Dance from your heart and let your passion shine through. – The Dance Mum


Dance is a great way to express yourself. – Darcey Bussell


Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you’ll see a difference. – Kathryn McCormick


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


Dance is a timeless interpretation of life. – Shah Asad Rizvi


Dance is art, paint your dream and follow it. – Steven Thomson


Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.        – Neve Campbell


Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. – Alvin Ailey


Dance is joy.  Dance is love.  Dance is what dreams are made of. – Unknown


Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done.            – Jerome Robbins


Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance. – Alarmel Valli


Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself. – Judith Jamison


Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. – Mikhail Baryshnikov


Dance is the hidden language of the soul. – Martha Graham


Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. – Twyla Tharp


Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. – Isadora Duncan


Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. – Ted Shawn


Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion. – Scott Nilsson


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


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


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


Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. – George Balanchine


Dancers are the athletes of God. – Albert Einstein


Dancers are the messengers of the gods. – Martha Graham


Dancing – however, you do it, even if it’s in your living room – is a great workout. – Ciara


Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. – Mason Cooley


Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. – Henry Fielding


Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. – Charles Baudelaire


Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. – Sweetpea Tyler


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


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


Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. – Erol Ozan


Dancing is like – it’s another way of communicating, no? – Mauricio Macri


Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. – Twyla Tharp


Dancing is like riding a bike. – Jamie Bell


Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway to expressing your deepest inner thoughts. – Normani Kordei


Dancing is my obsession. My life. – Mikhail Baryshnikov


Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. – Charles Baudelaire


Dancing is silent poetry. – Simonides


Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. – Lyall Watson


Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing, one draws nearer to oneself. – Jean Dubuffe


Dancing is the poetry of the foot. – John Dryden


Dancing is the world’s favorite metaphor. – Kristy Nilsson


Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. – Isadora Duncan


Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.        – John Travolta


Disco is just pop music you can dance to. – Sheena Easton


Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God. – Kamand Kojouri


Even if you are not that good, dancing frees the body to float along with the music and to cast off stress. – Byron Pulsifer


Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. – Martha Graham


Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you’ll want to make your next routine the best you’ve ever made! – Torron-Lee Dewar


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


Every savage can dance. – Jane Austen


Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself. – Misty Copeland


Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, ‘Well, I can’t sing.’ Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing. – Dick Van Dyke


Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while. – Simon Fowler


Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham


Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon.                   –  Edward Lear


He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor. – Hindu Proverb


How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats


I dance a lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. – Inga Muscio


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


I don’t want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.                        – George Balanchine


I don’t do well with snakes and I can’t dance. – Robin Williams


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


I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I’ll dance. – Gael Garcia Bernal


I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition. – Channing Tatum


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


I think dancing is a man’s game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.       – Gene Kelly


I think hip-hop is really fun right now… and that’s why people are using dance beats and singing more. – Wiz Khalifa


I try to dress classy and dance cheesy. – Psy


I was told that when I’m dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day. – Rain


I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. – Friedrich Nietzsche


I’m going to dance in all the galaxies. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. – E.E.Cummings


If a man doesn’t know how to dance he doesn’t know how to make love, there I said it!      – Craig Ferguson


If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. – Emma Goldman


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


If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That’s what rock and roll is all about. – Chuck Berry


In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. – Louise Brooks


It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. – Xiaolu Guo


Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. – William Stafford


Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair… – Susan Polis Schutz


Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.    – Voltaire


Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.                       – Rabindranath Tagore


Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. – Amit Ray


Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance. – James Howe


Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn’t seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance. – Whitney Scott


Life is the dancer and you are the dance. – Eckhart Tolle


Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching. – Bob Fosse


Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it. – Martha Graham


Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance. – Confucius


Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry


Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham


Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time. – Ginger Rogers


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


Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. – Paul Valery


Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. – Shah Asad Rizvi


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


The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.          – Charles Baudelaire


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


The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever. – W.M. Tory


The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. – Maurice Bjart


The first dance is the worst dance; the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection! – Mehmet Murat ildan


The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing. – Amit Kalantri


The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. – Rudolf Nureyev


The musician has the most brothers and the dancer the most sisters. – Alexandra Chauran


The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. – James Brown


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan W. Watts


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


There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.                    – Edwin Denby


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


Those move easiest who have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope


Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. – George Carlin


Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche


Through the synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer. – Shah Asad Rizvi


To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. – Jane Austen


To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. – Agnes De Mille


To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.                       – Eugene Louis (Luigi) Faccuito


We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.           – Robert Frost


We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too. – Kamand Kojouri


We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.                   – Friedrich Nietzsche


We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul. – Ilyas Kassam


We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. – Japanese Proverb


What we want from modern dance are courage and audacity. – Twyla Tharp


When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute and I’ll tell you who you are. – Mikhail Baryshnikov


When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy. – Katherine Jenkins


When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true. – Blake Lively


When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.                    – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan


When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it. – Adam Lambert


When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. – Paulo Coelho


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


Why walk when you can dance?  Ellen van Dam


Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough. – Groucho Marx


Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige


You live as long as you dance. – Rudolf Nureyev


You’re terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you. – Karen Kain



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