Moliere Quotes

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

People dance at any age.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

I hate dancing.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

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

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Rituals are important.

Man is not meant to live alone.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

A language is everything you do.

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.