Dance Culture Quotes

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

I am a disco king.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the '80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

EDM is very functional. It's meant to make people jump up and down and go crazy and it's real good at that. I just think in terms of expression, it's very very limiting.

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

At the end of the day, dancing is something that brings people together.

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.

I never went to any disco, I didn't know anything about dance.

The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way.

I've created a new sound. I've actually brought back dancing and vibes; it's more universal.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

I'm glad that nowadays people are aware of varied dance genres, thanks to reality TV dance shows.

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.

I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.