Judith Jamison Quotes

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Dance is so joyous.

I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.

Dance should mean something to you.

Dance excites me.

The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Everyone loves to dance. I've realize that's a part of what I do more and more every day.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Dance is my passion.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

Dance should touch people.

Everything changes when I dance... I am a taskmaster there. I am the creator. I am high on dance - my expression, body language... I am like a fire.

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.

I don't know how well I can dance, but I'm in the best state of mind and body when I dance.

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.