You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Patton Oswalt

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
Alvin Ailey

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
John Hughes

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Erica Jong

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
Twyla Tharp

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
Twyla Tharp