Dances Quotes

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' - Alison Krauss

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. - Arlo Guthrie

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. - Robert Alton Harris

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. - Twyla Tharp

Windows cast her gentle reflection. Her somber silhouette dances for me. Dear God, it's her. - Alesana

Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will. - Lord Chesterfield

Whenever I perform, I try to share my childhood experiences with nature. They had a tremendous effect on my life, and it has become very important to me to reconnect with my roots and introduce that aspect of my past experiences into my dances. - Vincent Mantsoe

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today ? - Ike Turner

When was the last time you saw a story being driven forward by dances and songs? - Rita Moreno

When he signed his contract for Miami, he went out and bought a minivan, put 20-inch rims on it and had an alien stuck in the back window... He dances to the beat of his own drum. - Pablo Mastroeni