Dance Quotes

“A good dancer is not the one who has the best technique, but the one who has the most heart.”

“I wanted to be a ballerina. I was a good dancer, but not a great dancer. It's a very difficult and competitive profession.”

“Dancing is a sweat job.”

“I just put my feet in the air and move them around.”

“Either the camera will dance, or I will.”

“The mirror is the teacher.”

“Too much thinking can ruin you. To be a great dancer, you have to be a little stupid.”

“It's what I've been trained to do. It's what I love to do. And I think I'm very, very good at it. I am a danseur.”

“Most dancers are during the day practicing and rehearsing, and at night they are performing.”

“For me, I'm a dancer first. I love music, so it's a part of my job, and I love choreography and performing.”

“Dance is the one thing that I can do that is not going to be judged. It's just me and my body. It is one of the most freeing things.”

“The great thing about dance music is that it’s a broad church. You can go from very dark, aggressive music to something very euphoric and soulful.”

“Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.”

“I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.”

“Dance is music made visible.”

“Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policemen don't have to look beautiful at the same time.”

“If you're looking for the Twist, I'm the man that started it all.”

“I saw these kids in Tampa, Florida, doing this dance... back and forth, like they were putting out a cigarette with both feet. That was the Twist.”

“Jazz should have a dance beat. That's its history.”

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”