Dancing, the act of being liberated from your reservations. Music and rhythm are some of the world’s natural therapeutic wonders. It’ll be a waste not to enjoy it. When you sway your body rhythmically (or not) to music, you sway your worries away. It doesn’t matter if you look ridiculous twirling your heart out or if your feet feel awkward. Dancing is fun and it’s physically and emotionally good for you. It revives your body as it does your mind. Just feel the music, see where it leads you, and most importantly, ignore the voice in your head that says you look absurd.
Because those who can dance, dance, and those who can’t, there shouldn’t be no stopping them, either. Here are 40 dance quotes to celebrate your love of dancing.
Best Dance Quotes
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire
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
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. – Sweetpea Tyler 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
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. – Jane Austen
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. – Ruth St. Denis
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. 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. – Miguel Angel Ruiz
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. – George Carlin
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 Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance. – Confucius
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. – Steve Aoki
The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever. – W.M. Tory
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. – Martha Graham There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. – Vicki Baum
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. – Agnes de Mille
While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance. – Hans Bos
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. – Mata Hari Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. – Oprah Winfrey
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like its heaven on earth.
Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you’ll see a difference. – Kathryn McCormick Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
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
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. – Twyla Tharp
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. – Edwin Denby
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. – Osho
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
Disco is just pop music you can dance to. – Sheena Easton 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
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
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. – Japanese Proverb
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett 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
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it. – Martha Graham
I think hip-hop is really fun right now… and that’s why people are using dance beats and singing more. – Wiz Khalifa
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it. – Adam Lambert
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