These Classical dance quotes will inspire you. Indian classical dance is an umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in musical theatre styles, whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text, Natyashastra.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Classical dance quotes, Classical dance sayings, and Classical dance proverbs.
Inspirational Classical Dance Quotes
- “Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.” ~ Martha Graham
- “Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!” ~ Constanze Mozart
- “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
- “Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.” ~ Nita Ambani
- “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
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“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.” ~ Deborah Bull
- “I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.” ~ Ruth St. Denis
- “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
- “The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.” ~ Agnes de Mille
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“Dance… enjoy each step along the way.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.” ~ Judith Jamison
- “Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” ~ Ted Shawn
- “Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.” ~ Martha Graham
- “The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.” ~ Barbara De Angelis
- “Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ~ Voltaire
- “Dance every performance as if it were your last.” ~ Erik Bruhn
- “We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.” ~ Martha Graham
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“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “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
- “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~ Alan Watts
- “There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle… that classical dance suffers.” ~ Kanak Rele
- “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” ~ Satchel Paige , Classical dance quotes love
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“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” ~ Dave Barry
- “I don’t try to dance better than anybody but myself.” ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
- “Even the ears must dance.” ~ Natalia Makarova
- “Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” ~ William Stafford
- “I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.” ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
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“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well.” ~ Martha Graham
- “Work like you don’t need the money.” ~ Joseph Joubert
- “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Dance Baby Dance, Come and do Romance, again you will not get a Chance
– Shravan