Mary Oliver Quotes

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Dance like nobody's looking.

I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.