Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

By now, everyone knows I do not just sing standing in the middle of the stage. I also dance and get others to dance with me.

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

Just think Beyonce on ice, honey. That's me.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom.

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

A lot of people know that I danced, but I also sang.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

Everyone always remembers my dancing.

I'm the performer of the group. My thing is like, every time I come on stage, I always bring it 120 percent, 150 percent.

I have never been vocal about my singing abilities, but I am always ready to present my dancing skills.

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

I agree that some of my performances in America, apart from having drama and excitement, have been a little under my estimation for performance.

I've always wanted to be a live singer and have dance be the complement.

Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.