Top 76 Dance Quotes

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There are a lot of different benefits to dancing. With that in mind, check out the top 76 dance quotes.

#76 – 70. Dance Quotes

76. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on. — Michael Jackson

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

74. The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion. — Merce Cunningham

73. In a society that worships love, freedom, and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

72. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room… — Kurt Vonnegut

71. Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. — Fred Astaire

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

#69 – 60. Dance Quotes

69. 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

68. To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? – Michael Jackson

67. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endures – symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other. – Alexandra Katehakis

66. The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.  — Agnes de Mille

65. Dance is a little insanity that does us all good. — Edward Demby

64. 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

63. Dancing is silent poetry. — Simonides

62. To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. — Indian Proverb

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

60. Dancing is the poetry of the foot.  — John Dryden

#59 – 50. Dance Quotes

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

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

57. To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova

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

55. Dancing is like a shower: one wrong turn and you’re in hot water! — Mad Magazine

54. I have no desire to prove anything by dancing…I just dance. — Fred Astaire

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

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

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

50. You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls. — Merce Cunningham

#49 – 40. Dance Quotes

49. I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine

48. You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man. – Gene Kelly

47. Dancing is like breathing — missing a day doing either is very bad. — Vera Ellen

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

45. Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness. – Munia Khan

44. 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. — Jacques d’Amboise

43. The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it. — Wendy Whelan

42. Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. — Margot Fonteyn

41. Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. — Louis Horst

40. Dancers are the athletes of God. — Albert Einstein

#39 – 30. Dance Quotes

39. It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat, It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm, It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance, It is my dance, It is my moment, It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face. – Dan Pearce

38. Those who can’t dance say the music is no good. — Jamaican Proverb

37. 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

36. There’s nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks. —  Twyla Tharp

35. You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you. — Isadora Duncan

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

33. Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. – Michael Jackson

32. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C.S. Lewis

31. Every song has it’s own heartbeat. […] The pulse in music is what makes it alive. – J.R. Rim

30. There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it… We realized how full we felt, we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy. – Alvin Ailey

#29 – 20. Dance Quotes

29. You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. – Merce Cunningham

28. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!  — Constanze Mozart

27. Bleeding feet will bond us. — Liza Minelli

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

25. Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. — Judith Jamison

24. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham

23. Follow your passion. Find that something that makes you want to work at it. Work hard. Nothing comes without hard work. — Tomas Schramek

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

21. If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing. – Melody Carstairs

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

#19 – 10. Dance Quotes

19. Dance is art; paint your dream and follow it. — Steven Thompson

18. 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

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

16. I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday.  — Misty Copeland

15. 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

14. The body says what words cannot. — Martha Graham

13. 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

12. Dance, when you’re broken open, Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off, Dance in the middle of the fighting, […] Dance when you’re perfectly free. – Jalaluddin Rumi

11. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards

10. Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune. – Deepak Chopra

#9 – 1. Dance Quotes

9. I don’t want to hide, I want to slow dance with you again, I want to dance with you forever. – Sarah Black

8. 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

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

6. All I ever needed was the music and the mirror. — A Chorus Line

5. Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I’ve got.  If I’m in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark.  When you’re working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you.  That’s the dancer within, reaching out. — Mitzi Gaynor

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

3. Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing. — Twyla Tharp

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

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

Ideas for the top 76 dance quotes come from the following sources.^[1]Planet of Success – 80 Inspirational Dance Quote to Get You Dancing^[2]studio director – 55 Dance Quote That Will Delight And Inspire Your Students