“To everything there is a season, … and a time to dance.”

“Why do I dance? … Why do I breathe?”

“When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I ca only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance”

“Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.”

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

“To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.”

“Dancers are the athletes of God.”

“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.”

“Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”

“Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don’t have to be beautiful at the same time.”

“Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.”

“Tomorrow’s success begins today.”

“I should not believe in a God who does not dance.”

“Socrates learned to dance when he was 70 because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.”

“God Respects Us When We Work, but He Loves Us When We Dance.”

“He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.”

“Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.”

“Behind each victory is a long train of suffering.”

“Quitters never win and winners never quit.”

“Dancing is an art because it is subject to rules.”

“Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.”

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

“Dance every performance as if it were your last.”

“You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.”

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”

“Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

“1. Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.

 2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.

 3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.

 4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners.”

“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.”

“Dance isn’t something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced.”

“Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.”

“I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”

“The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.”

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”

“Good dancers have mostly better heels than heads!”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“So you can’t dance? Not at all? Not even one step? … How can you say that you’ve taken any trouble to live when you won’t even dance?”

“All dancing girls are nineteen years old.”

“Then comes the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are, you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.”