Lovely and ludicrous dance quotes
Tom Parson's collection of dance quotes is a mix of the lovely and ludicrous, the humorous and humbling. Eliza http://www.dancer.com/elizabio.html and John http://www.dancer.com/johnbio.html Minden of Gaynor Minden http://www.dancer.com/home.html have graciously agreed to allow Dance Tours to use these quotes. Here's another company that has turned their passion for dance into a business.
Expect to see some of these quotes on www.dancetours.co.nz soon but in the meantime here's a selection for blog readers.Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me.
--Hope Floats
--Vince Lombardi
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
--Angela Monet (also attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.
--Plato
Dance is like life, it exists as you're flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.
--Jerome Robbins
I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
--Rita Rudner
To those of us with real understanding, dancing is the only pure art form.
--Charles Schulz [in Peanuts (Snoopy speaking)]
The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it...very young married ladies may be allowed to waltz if it is very seldom....
--From "The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness," 2nd American edition, Boston: Allen and Ticknor and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
--Source unknown
If you're on thin ice you might as well be dancing.
--Source unknown
Socrates learned to dance when he was 70 because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
--Source unknown
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
--Source unknown
