Bobby Jones Quotes

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

I tap dance.

Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I loved dance.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Dance is so joyous.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

Music is the silence between the notes.

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

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

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 see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

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

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.