Famous quotes by Dancers

"You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"

George Chakiris, Dancer

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains"

Josephine Baker, Dancer

"We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word"

Mata Hari, Dancer

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing"

Doris Humphrey, Dancer

"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike"

Margot Fonteyn, Dancer

"If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change"

Harold Nicholas, Dancer

"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want"

Paul Taylor, Dancer

"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories"

Mary Wigman, Dancer

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"Learn by practice"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"First we have to believe, and then we believe"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men"

Martha Graham, Dancer

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