I felt that I didnt want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!
Gregory Hines

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf Nureyev

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
Fred Astaire

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
Ginger Rogers

Rhythym is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner you don`t have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.
Ginger Rogers

Whenever I hear, 'It cant be done,' I know I am close to success.
Michael Flatley

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Michael Jackson

 

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and dont think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
George Balanchine choreographer

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire

 

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
Unknown

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didnt matter after that of before
Jacques D'Amboise

Dancing is a sweat job.
Fred Astaire

I dont want dancers who want to dance. I want dancers who have to dance.
George Balanchine choreographer

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That’s the greatest dancer of the century.
Fred Astaire watching a young Michael Jackson perform

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Gene Kelly

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
Ruth St. Denis

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
Gene Kelly

"When you perform...you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.
Agnes de Mille

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.
Jacques D'Amboise

The real reason I dance is because I want to explode.
Bill Evans

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Martha Graham

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
Rudolf Nureyev

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"
Mark Twain

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