50 Quotes About Dancing to Inspire You to Move Your Body

1. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing." - James Brown

2. "Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." - Samuel Beckett

3. "Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself." - Jean Dubuffet

4. "There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." - Vicki Baum

5. "There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." - Vicki Baum

6. "Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" – Constanze

7. "Dance is the timeless interpretation of life." – Shah Asad Rizvi

8. "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." – Hopi Indian Saying

9. "The body says what words cannot." —Martha Graham

10. "You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams." – Gene Kelly

11. "Forget your troubles and dance." – Bob Marley

12. "Some of my happiest moments have been dancing." - Claire Danes

13. "Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides

14. "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love." - Jane Austen

15. "Feet's job is to walk, but their passion is dancing." - Priyanshu Singh

16. "When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you." - Coelho

17. "The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion." - Merce Cunningham

18. "He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor." - Hindu Proverb

19. "Dancers are made, not born." - Mikhail Baryshnikov

20. "Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn." - Terri Guillemets

1. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

2. "Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life." - Robert Breault

3. "Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life." - Jacques d'Amboise

4. "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

5. "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful." – Agnes De Mille

6. "The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie." – Agnes de Mille

7. "Dance is a language beyond words, expressing that for which we have no words." – Jennifer De Leon

8. "Get up off of that thing. Dance and you'll feel better." – James Brown

9. "Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance." - James Howe

10. "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world." - Voltaire

11. "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

12. "Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made." - Ted Shawn

13. "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

14. "In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath." - Breyten Breytenbach

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

1. "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

2. "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

3. "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." - e. e. cummings

4. "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." - Martha Graham

5. "Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done." - Jerome Robbins

6. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts

7. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." - Satchel Paige

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

9. "Dance is art; paint your dream and follow it." –Steven Thompson

10. "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

11. "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

12. "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese Proverb

13. "There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual – you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise." - Julianne Hough

14. "If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance." - Chuck Berry

15. "Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter." - Louis Horst