1. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.-Friedrich Nietzsche
2. 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
3. Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.-Martha Graham
4. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.-Ted Shawn
5. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.-Havelock Ellis
6. Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.-Terri Guillemets
7. 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
8. Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.-Isadora Duncan
9. 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
10. 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.-Jaques D’Ambroise
11. Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.-Robert Frost
12. 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
13. You don’t enter a dance studio and say “I can’t do that.” If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?-Judith Jamison
14. Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.-Christopher Morley
15. There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.-Vicki Baum
16. Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.-Charles Baudelaire
17. Dancing is the poetry of the foot.-John Dryden
18. Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone’s toes, pretty much the same as life.-Robert Brault
19. The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.-Mata Hari
20. Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.-Peter Saint James
21. To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.-Indian Proverb
22. They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.-Terence
23. Dance isn’t something that can be explained in words. It has to be danced.-Paige Arden
24. Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.-Alarmel Valli
25. Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.-Martha Graham
26. The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations-Maurice Bjart
27. Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.-Scott Nilsson
28. Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done.-Jerome Robbins
29. Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.-Fred Astaire
30. The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.-La Meri