Jim Butcher Quotes

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far back and really connected me to my ancestors.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

All people from small islands dance funny.

I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

The South is a place for music, dance, and culture.

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me.

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.