"I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God." ~Martha Graham, c.1953
"Dancers are the athletes of God" ~Albert Einstein
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain" ~Unknown
"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good." ~Edwin Denby
"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music." ~William Stafford
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." ~Japanese Proverb
"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" ~Constanze
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?" ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays." ~George Balanchine
"In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength." ~Martha Graham
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. " ~George Balanchine
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." ~Shanna LaFleur
"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." ~Samuel Beckett
"Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger." ~Sweetpea Tyler
"Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to 'Y.M.C.A.'?" ~Dave Sokolowski
"Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head." ~Terence
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~William James
