Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

I am a dancer at heart.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

No talent lies in my dancing.

I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jumpa, more difficult acrobatic jump.

Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.

Dance has been very close to my heart. I am very passionate about it.

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I loved dance.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Dancing is kind of my thing.

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

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

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.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.