Daily Inspiration Quote by Paul Taylor

“My sound is very smooth” lands like a small act of boundary-crossing. Paul Taylor, a dancer, reaches for audio language to describe movement, suggesting that his artistry isn’t just seen; it’s felt, almost heard in the body. Smoothness here isn’t a vague compliment. It signals control, continuity, a refusal of sharp edges. In dance, “smooth” means transitions you can’t clock, phrasing that looks inevitable, technique so integrated it reads as ease. He’s describing a surface, but also the labor beneath it.

The self-check - “Not to be too cliche” - is the tell. Taylor knows “sensual and sultry” can sound like marketing copy, the lazy shorthand often slapped onto performance to sell it as “sexy.” By naming the cliche, he tries to keep ownership of it. That move also shows the cultural tightrope male dancers have long walked: to claim sensuality without being reduced to it, to project heat without inviting a narrow, objectifying gaze. He wants the audience to register desire as atmosphere, not as costume.

“Sensual and sultry” points to intent: not aggression, not spectacle, but seduction through texture. It’s about proximity - how close a body can feel without touching you. Coming from a 20th-century modern dance lineage, it reads as a bid for immediacy: an insistence that refinement and erotic charge aren’t opposites. The subtext is confidence with a wink: I know the words are cheesy; I also know they’re true when the work is done right.