Rhythm and Movement Quotes

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

Music and dance are all you need.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.

To dance is to live!

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

Fred Astaire’s got nothing on me.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.