Social Dancing Quotes

I'm happy to dance with anyone, to be honest. I've had some great partners, who have all been talented. But not all of them at dancing.

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

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

My experience of dancing is exclusively at weddings or parties with alcohol involved and in the dark.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

There are dances you can do separately - your charleston, your jive.

I like to dance, but there's nothing professional about it.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three - a simple fox trot. But they're shaking with anticipation at the thought that I'm about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.

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

My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.