October 9 2022

99 Dance Quotes That Will Make You Move Your Feet

Dance through your day! One of the very few things that creates unity despite age or tunes. This incredible form of expression has the power to bring people together through any sound of music and when new realms of beats arise then growth follows. For many individuals, this admiral performing art is a profession that conveys communication and entertainment to thousands and thousands around the world. Yet again, many famous artists and celebrities agree that it is you and me that move for expression, exercise, creativity and fun.

Whether ballet, disco, tango or hip hop is to your liking, let your feet tap to the beat and your body move to the rhythm of the various songs and melodies. Play your favorite song and dance through life’s ups and downs. Continue reading and find a remarkable selection of quotes that amazing renowned philosophers, physicists, actors and more have stated about getting into the groove.

Best Dance Quotes

Short Dance Quotes
Inspirational Dance Quotes
Motivational Dance Quotes

Funny Dance Quotes
Dance Quotes By Famous Dancers
Poetic Quotes About Dance
Dance Quotes On Images

Best Dance Quotes

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. Martha Graham
If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world. Amy Poehler
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 it’s heaven on earth.
William W. Purkey
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. Amit Ray

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. Pina Bausch
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari
Dancers are the athletes of God. Albert Einstein
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche

Movements are as eloquent as words. Isadora Duncan
You look ridiculous if you dance. You looks ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance. Gertrude Stein
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. Samuel Beckett
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Schutz
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance. Confucius
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. Charles Baudelaire
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. Jacques d’Amboise

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. William Stafford
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. Isadora Duncan

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. Gene Kelly
It’s better to dance than to march through life. Yoko Ono
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for – liberation. Martha Graham

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. Martha Graham
I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel. Pina Bausch
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. Jean Dubuffet
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

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
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what’s more, poetry, love and tenderness. Maurice Bejart
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you. Louis Horst
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Short Dance Quotes

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze Mozar

Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. Anne Lamott
Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. Steve Maraboli
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear
Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form. Merce Cunningham

We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Alan Watts
Dancing transforms everything, demands everything, and judges no one. Paulo Coelho
I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. Pina Bausch
Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music. Pierce Brosnan
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp

Every movement reveals us. Michel de Montaigne
Falling is one of the ways of moving. Merce Cunningham
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life. James Clavell
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion. Merce Cunningham
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. Agnes de Mille
There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. Eva Ibbotson
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. James Joyce
I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance. Paulo Coelho
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting. Aphra Behn

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. Aldous Huxley
I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Grace dances, I should dance. W.H. Auden

Inspirational Dance Quotes

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Wilson Watts
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. Oprah Winfrey
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler
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
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Martha Graham

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. Robert McKee
For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought. Soren Kierkegaard
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. Shirley MacLaine
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself. Merce Cunningham
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Gustav Jung

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater. Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. Curt Sachs
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
Albert Einstein
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
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. Bruce Lee
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit. Judith Jamison

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis
If theater is ritual, then dance is too… It’s as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Motivational Dance Quotes

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow. Santosh Kalwar
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. Mandy Hale

Funny Dance Quotes

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance. James Howe
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. Twyla Tharp

It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous. Martha Graham
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Molière

Dance Quotes By Famous Dancers

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. Martha Graham
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life — not existing forms of dance. Pina Bausch
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

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. Martha Graham
Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that. Merce Cunningham
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
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes – and a maximum of sensations. Maurice Bejart
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too. Merce Cunningham

Poetic Quotes About Dance

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
The second best is a formal order
The dance’s pattern, dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy
The tune is catching and will not stop
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W.H. Auden

Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Leonard Cohen
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W.B. Yeats
Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come Dance with Me.”
Come Dance.
Hafiz