This page is a collection of inspirational dance quotes.
Throughout history dance has been used as a spiritual expression, mating ritual, story telling, non-verbal form of communication, and just for fun. Allow these dance quotes to inspire you to greater levels as you dance through life. Enjoy this page of inspirational dance quotes.
Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching. -Aurora Greenway
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. -unknown
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. -James Brown
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. -Maya Angelou
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
Let us read and let us dance- two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. -Voltaire
In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. -Alice Abrams
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. -unknown
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. -Indian Proverb
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. -George Balanchine
I should not believe in a God who does not dance. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. -Samuel Beckett
More Inspirational Dance Quotes
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech. -Francis Bacon
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. -D.H. Lawrence
The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. -Maurice Béjart
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. -Agnes de Mille
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. -Charles Baudelaire
Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done. -Jerome Robbins
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music. -George Carlin
Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion. -Scott Nilsson
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. -Martha Graham
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words. -Ruth St. Denis
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. -George Bernard Shaw
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
Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love. -Lois Hurst
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. -William Stafford
