The 75 best phrases of Dance and Dancing

An art that connects us with our body and our creative mind.

Dance and dance are performing arts that enjoy great popularity nowadays.. The different types of dance range from classical (ballet, tap, classical dance...) to modern variants of hip-hop, rhythm and blues, etcetera.

We already talked in a previous article about the benefits of dancing, and even about the advantages of physical exercise. In short, dance and dance are art forms that not only develop our emotional and theatrical side, but also our motor and body skills.

Famous phrases about Dance and Dancing.

In today's article we are going to review the best phrases of Dance and Dance uttered by choreographers and artists of all times.

1. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being yourself. (Paulo Coelho)

This is how the Brazilian writer talks about the art of dance.

2. Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Martha Graham)

A form of introspection.

3. Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

One of those phrases about music that restore our faith in art.

4. Being creative means being in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough to want to enhance its beauty, to bring to it a little more music, a little more poetry, a little more dance. (Osho)

On the creative mind.

5. My heart, which fills to overflowing, has often been comforted and refreshed by music when I am sick and tired. (Martin Luther)

Music has genuine healing properties.

6. Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music bestows. (Charles Baudelaire)

Two arts of almost mystical association.

7. Every dance you do belongs to you. It's part of your collection. When he thinks of it that way, you'll want his next routine to be the best he's ever done! (Torron-Lee Dewar)

A unique and special experience.

8. Music moves us emotionally, where words alone cannot. (Johnny Depp)

This is how the Pirates of the Caribbean actor talks about music.

9. Through the synergy of intellect, art and grace came the blessing of a dancer. (Shah Asad Rizvi)

An almost intellectual connection.

10. Music is an explosion of the soul. (Frederick Delius)

The creative capacity drinks from the animated genius of each artist.

11. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace and abolishing strife. (Kahlil Gibran)

Rhythm invites us to wiggle as if there were no tomorrow.

12. Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. (Maya Angelou)

An overview of the art of dance.

13. Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without. (Confucius)

Great reflection of the oriental philosopher.

14. Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do the world any harm. (Voltaire)

One of those dancing phrases to take life with a different mentality.

15. Dancers are instruments, like a piano played by the choreographer. (George Balanchine)

Brutal metaphor of the Russian choreographer.

16. I would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing in the moonlight with the flamenco guitar. (Janet Fitch)

Poetic reflection on the feeling that music awakens in us.

17. We should consider lost the days in which we have not danced at least once. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Even the German philosopher liked to dance.

18. To dance is to reach a word that does not exist. To sing a song of a thousand generations. To feel the meaning of a moment. (Beth Jones)

On the mysticism of dance.

19. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. (Eckhart Tolle)

Metaphor for floating in the confines of life.

20. Because I have trained myself and am always training myself to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought. (Søren Kierkegaard)

The philosophical mind also requires a good rhythmic swagger.

21. When the words go, the music begins. (Heinrich Heine)

Music says things that words cannot.

22. Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music deeply rooted within us to which we dance, even when we cannot name the tune. (Deepak Chopra)

The Indian writer speaks thus about the human essence.

23. It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. (Shanna LaFleur)

A key differentiation between physical and artistic skills.

24. To live is to be musical, starting with the Blood dancing in your veins. Everything that lives has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? (Michael Jackson)

The mythical American musician speaks this way about the art of dancing.

25. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being yourself. (Paulo Coelho)

You alone against the world.

26. Hardly anyone dances sober, unless they are people who are crazy. (H.P. Lovecraft)

Even the writer of horror novels has some nice words about dancing.

27. Dancers are God's athletes. (Albert Einstein)

Great phrase of the Jewish scientist.

28. Music and dance are two arts that are intimately linked. (Molière)

Almost a truism.

29. When I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be happy and feel joyful. (Hans Bos)

On the therapeutic capabilities of dancing.

30. Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (George Bernard Shaw)

An ironic metaphor that only the most astute will understand.

31. For me, to put myself in movement is to begin to meditate. (Maurice Béjart)

Meditation, a logical consequence of dance?

32. I always believe that dance contains in itself four arts. Music, choreography, painting and literature. (George de las Cuevas)

Dance is not only moving the body.

33. A dancer dances because his blood dances in his veins. (Anna Pavlova)

It is almost a way of being and feeling.

34. A sacred dance, like the sap in the trees. (Archie Ammons)

Music and dance are part of the most essential.

35. If I could tell you what it feels like, it wouldn't be worth dancing. (Isadora Duncan)

The American dancer talks about the need to express herself through dance.

36. I was born by the seashore. My first idea of movement and dance surely came to me from the rhythm of the waves... (Isadora Duncan).

Poetic reflection that can make us think.

37. To dance is to feel, to feel is to suffer, to suffer is to love; You love, suffer and feel. You dance! (Isadora Duncan)

Emotions and their influence on the art of dance.

38. In the cinema all the arts intervene: the plastic arts, for the photography; the music, for the sound; the literature, for the argument and also the dance for the montage, which is really fascinating. (Raul Soldi)

This is how the Argentine artist talks about cinema.

39. Everybody knows what fado is, that dance so voluptuous, so varied that it seems to be the daughter of the most refined study of art. A simple guitar serves as an effect better than any other instrument. (Manuel Antonio de Almeida)

The Brazilian writer has these beautiful words about dance.

To be one with life means to be one with the now. Then we realize that we do not live life, but that life lives us. Life is the dancer and we are the dance. (Eckhart Tolle)

A reflection very close to the Mindfulness philosophy.

41. Dance in the body you have. (Agnes de Mille)

Whatever your skeleton is, it has been designed to move.

42. When I was young I had no intention of following that path. However, since I was a child, I liked her elegant manners and, even then, I used to visit the Udyi neighborhood. I became fond of fashion. I discovered that I had dancing ability and almost everyone praised me, which pleased me greatly. (Ihara Saikaku)

A biographical sketch of the Japanese novelist.

43. Dance is the world's favorite metaphor. (Kristy Nilsson)

A masterful thought about the plasticity of dance.

44. There is a little madness in dancing that does everybody a lot of good. (Edwin Denby)

To dance is to free oneself from many accumulated tensions and fears.

45. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Vicki Baum)

On the ability of dance to make us feel good.

46. Those who dance are considered crazy by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

They are only mad to those who do not pay attention to the magic of music.

47. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It is to enjoy every step you take. (Wayne Dyer)

Absurd movement, but basic to life.

48. God, join me with a good dancer. (William Shakespeare)

Even the English writer was clear about who could make him happy.

Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance. (Mr. Miyagi)

Funny thought of the genius of Karate Kid.

50. To dance is to move to the music without stepping on someone's feet, much like life. (Robert Brault)

Spectacular metaphor that unites dance and love.

51. Poetry is to prose what dancing is to walking. (John Wain)

A beautiful and orderly way of walking.

52. We are fools whether we dance or not, therefore we should dance. (Japanese proverb)

Nothing matters, so let us at least have fun.

53. Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. (James Brown)

The genius of soul had it absolutely clear.

54. When the music changes, so does the dance. (African proverb)

The rhythm determines our feeling.

55. Embrace each step with intensity, dance and unleash your emotions. (Anonymous)

A form of emotional catharsis that repairs the wounds of the past.

56. No one cares if you don't dance well, just get up and dance. (Dave Barry)

Overcome your fears and get on the dance floor.

57. Dance like no one's watching. (Anonymous)

Along the lines of the previous sentence.

58. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. (Groucho Marx)

Great dance phrase of the mythical humorist.

59. Dance, dance is the unique art of which we ourselves are the material from which it is made. (Ted Shawn)

An art that needs nothing more than our own bodies and movements.

60. Truth is that when dancing the soul of the beauty, that more than the face, tries to persuade and to fall in love. (Lope de Vega)

A great reflection of the Castilian writer.

61. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, work as if you didn't need the money, dance as if no one was watching. (Bob Fosse)

Three tips to apply to your daily life.

62. God respects you when you work but loves you when you dance. (Sufi proverb)

Never forget to enjoy life.

63. The dance is not in the step, but between step and step. To make one movement after another is nothing more than that, movements. How and why it is linked and what one wants to say with them, that is what is important. (Antonio Gades)

The fluidity between movements, the key to dance.

64. Poetry, music and dance are the echo of smiles and cries that exalt the human being with their mathematical rhythms. (Homero Cerecedo Exelente)

A very special metaphor about the beauty of dance and dance.

65. I wanted to do new things in dance, to adapt it to the medium of moving images. (Gene Kelly)

To innovate in dance you need more than innovation.

66. For years she photographed people jumping; she believed that dancing, dancing and jumping made the mask fall off and gave the real image of people. (Albert Espinosa)

This is how the Catalan filmmaker talks about dance.

67. 37 seconds, we breathe, we dance we regenerate, the heart beats, the mind creates, the soul absorbs, 37 seconds well used is a lifetime. (Dustin Hoffman)

One of those dance phrases that make our hair stand on end.

68. Dancing is considered a vertical act born of a horizontal desire. (Allan Pease)

A great phrase with a very strong connotation.

69. Yeah, I know. Quell my natural gift and dance like a straight guy. (Eric Stonestreet)

That's how he defined dancing.

70. Dance is nothing more than the reflection of what our body turns into art. (Antonio Gades)

Another reflection of the Spanish choreographer, in the form of a famous quote.

71. My ballet is of the people. (Antonio Gades)

Culture cannot be anyone's private property.

72. At home sometimes I sing and dance in my underwear and that doesn't make me Madonna. (Joan Cusack)

Of course, no one has rhythm in their veins like the American singer.

73. And now I want to dance. I want to win. I want that trophy. (Uma Thurman)

The actress, in one of her most famous phrases.

74. I can't dance properly but I like to jump. It's like having shock and spasms. (Damon Albarn)

Among all the dance phrases, perhaps this is the one that most encourages us to dance without thinking about it too much.

75. Mick Jagger moves as if he were doing a parody of a majorette and Fred Astaire. (Truman Capote)

About the art of the Rolling Stones singer.