Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

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

I explained it when I danced it.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.