People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.
To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing. . . and dancing. . . and dancing. Until there is only. . . the dance.
When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom. ' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn't remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I've met him as an adult!