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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance is music made visible.

George Balanchine

And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Michael Jackson

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek

Tom Robbins

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.

Shanna LaFleur

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

George Balanchine

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Samuel Beckett

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

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

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a pene- trating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.

Berenice Abbott

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment

Alan Watts

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Amy Bloom

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

Mata Hari

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D.H. Lawrence

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

Peter Saint James

You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.

Unknown

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.

Mata Hari

Those who can't dance say the music is no good