Dance Quotations | Page 5

If they know there are consequences, they don't do things. If they know at the dance they will be checked for alcohol, they are much less likely to use alcohol.

If they want to treat me like a monkey then I'll dance like one.

I don't have the dance background like Stacy, who studied ballet, or Drew, who was in a boy band.

I'd like to go on the road again with a band. When I did it I loved the social aspects of it, you know traveling with the band and all, but I didn't like the music as well. And there was nothing of visual interest. Maybe I would have to get someone else to play so I could finally dance the way I was born to do.

I didn't dance, but I twirled. I also did choreography as a kid. I was so excited to be part of the dance line.

I did that dance single as a one-off. It was a fun song - I really wanted to do it. But I have no idea what direction I am going in.

I don't know what to think about this, whether it's a serious problem or not. What it seems to me is just a continuation of the song and dance we're getting from Jackson County.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

I am doing a rain dance on my desk as we speak.

But it would've been a square dance anyway, ... The heel-toe thing. I was going to go around the goal post, all that good stuff.

Burhan Qureshi's fat ass was noticed by Beyonce...and she could not resist but to ask him to join her in the dance off.

I make dance music, or disco, ... And dance music isn't really about anything. I can tell if it's working: Are people dancing? Yes.' Then I've achieved my goal.

I love dance music, it started with me in '88 and has never left me. It's what I consider to be my driving music, whenever I'm in the car!

I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.

I had one spin around and swim right at me and I kind of did a dance over the top of him, ... I don't know exactly what took place because you can't really see once that water starts splashing around. After I got away from him, I recaptured him.

I give it a 93. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

I can't speak for Jan Harder, but what I would say is the best thing for people who are not sure is to see for themselves what the upper deck is like and have fun. We can't just stop having contests. You could say (we'll have) the best dance contest. Well, what if somebody dances the wrong way? The thing is toga is fun and it's creative, and it fits the college theme of the next game because it is college freshman week (at both Ottawa universities).

I can't make that comment now. You have to have the invite to the dance first.

Give me some words we can dance to,

I don't understand what their message is. Dance with me into the future? What does it say?

I don't understand people's weekends. They just plan to go to clubs and drink and dance and go home, and then do it over again.

For us it's long suffering -- 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been a little bit frustrating.

For us, 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been frustrating, ... So this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody that's been involved in it.

For most people, it's tough enough to learn these types of moves while on the dance floor or working out in the gym,

I go out and do a snow dance every night but it doesn't seem to work. I could make more money jumping around in my backyard naked, because I'm sure not making any doing snow.

If the east gets fixed within six months, one of them (CSX or NS) could very well go to the dance with UP, the other could end up going with CN/BN soon thereafter,

He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wife and I would come over for dinner. His daughters were taking dance lessons, and he used to go to all the recitals. He was the type of guy who would make you feel good about yourself. You always got the sense that he was on your side.

He is a master craftsman. His works have great form and wonderful physicality and he knows how to move bodies around a stage. It's dance that's food for the eye. But there's always some kind of stab to the heart.

He is going to dance around the weeds a little bit, calling for the Fed to be data-dependent.

He is doing a delicate dance trying to please everyone. At the end of the day people are going to walk out of this hearing room being uncomfortable.

He moves with so much grace and so much control. He's so strong, but at the same time, he's so soft. It's just so comfortable to dance with him.

We can live with the governor's (proposed) budget, even though it won't make us jubilant enough to dance in the streets. But, it's now in the hands of the legislators and they could really change it.

We've done the soccer, football and dance thing with kids going in all directions, and you find that you just can't be everywhere at the same time.

With motion capture, we can do that and get just pure dance movements.

To dance is to be in tune with the steps of life.

Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Paula Abdul?! Gettin' Paula Abdul to judge a singin' contest is like gettin' Christopher Reeve to judge a dance contest!

Having Karen in the gym has been such a huge plus for us because she is so good at the choreography and dance and the look of the routines on beam and floor. She is a also a Level 10 judge, so she is able to tell the girls what the judges look for and where certain deductions come.

Her mother made her go because her brother, who was stationed in Paris, always complained that there were not any nice girls to dance with. It was unusual, but he proposed to her that night. She accepted two months later.

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

We have to attack using our speed and bench. Whatever got you to the dance, you've got to keep playing that dance card.

. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

He wasn't a violent guy. He didn't even talk tough or macho. I've never known him to own any weapons. He was more like a family guy. He would take his daughters to dance lessons or go shopping and have parties for friends.

He cannot dance. Mario has no moves. He can dance on the court but not off of it.

I was in the Santa Rosa Musician's Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never played together show up and play dance music.

I was in New York for a dance program, and I decided to give (volleyball) a try. My mom called the coach and asked her if I could play.

Joe will make an excellent facilitator for dance in this area if he's given the time, space and resources. There are people in Buffalo who control the resources and who make the difference, and you have to have dancers like Joe and Cathy, who have a national and international reputation, to create the buzz that will bring the money out of these leading companies or families.

I think it brings dance to a new level, to make it more accessible.

I think it's a natural progression. The door have been nudged on and pushed on for years, and it's sort of giving way now. If you research music, the foundation of most contemporary music originates from the South. It's just the natural progression of time and music that it comes back to the place where it originated from. I think it's beautiful, and snap is a new movement that allows people to stay current and allows people to dance again. Everybody wants to be hard, everybody wants to be gangsters. Yeah, that's cool but we also gotta learn how to have fun.

It comes from the likes of you! ... Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

I think you will see some matching. But the (major competitor) airlines will dance around to begin with.

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

I was doing quite a nervous poodle dance over it, ... I've seen coyotes play in it, rabbits go dashing across it and a whole family of moose. This is really an important piece of land. A lot of people got it, they understood that.

I think UAL has shown that you can play hardball on slashing labor costs. You don't need to dance around. You wield a powerful stick that can force labor groups to accept draconian cuts.

It isn't over for us yet. She's still got dance classes and competitions with Troy School of Dance and she's going to visit other competitions and represent the state at those.

It is hard to even put into words how I feel right now. Cassandra really found her place in the dance studio. She would tell me how she would wake up from her sleep sometimes because of dreams of dance choreography.

I think we're looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon.

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!

I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

Just for activities, we drive between 60 to 90 miles a week. And now my daughter's thinking about dance next year, and my son 4-H.

I say lets dance them right out the door.

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too.

Our goal is to produce a monthly vaudeville-style show with an eclectic mix of live music, juggling, dance and sketch comedy.

Right now Save the Last Dance (for me) is the single so they're probably going to want me to do that.

Playing opposite her was just a dance in sharing -- a beautiful dance in sharing, ... We were like singing a song to each other.

Relating to teenage girls can be a real dance so to speak. I know we're going to have difficulties when we get to that age.

People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

That bar is being set so high, really high in this pool of competitors. You see that all over the dance world, the technical bar being raised, and the evidence is right here in Jackson this summer.

My son had hockey. My daughter had dance classes. And I made the little ones come along with me. Life doesn't stop because they showed up.

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision. It's a breathtakingly full dance card.

My roommate was black and he'd get me to dress up really nerdy and take me to the parties with the brothers. He'd put me in dance contests against the best dancer there. That's how we made our grocery money ... until people started recognizing me and didn't want to dance against me.

Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly on this album. I think people love it and they want to hear it, so expect a lot of the songs from Confessions on a Dance Floor .

Like other nonprofit organizations, we've had a tough year, and those added revenues from the signs would help maintain our level of offerings like concerts, theater and dance productions.

I was unemployed after finishing Save the Last Dance and I went out for this other role. It wasn't like, "Okay, now I'm going to do tv." It was like, I have to pay my rent and my student loan, what can I do? I'm lucky that the show is doing well, so it looks like I've got this balanced plan.

I was excited by what I felt could plausibly, hopefully be the melding of the dance and the music. I was excited to fold the musicians into the movement.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

I think music can be many things to many people. I think it should exist on many levels. I think that music can exist on dance and rhythm and movement and at the same time, exist on a very high intellectual level. You can come to the music bringing whatever understanding you have and find something in it that you can connect with.

I think it will be the most interesting ice dance competition we will ever see.

I'm happy because I really, really liked '80s music. It's the fun element. It makes people happy and want to dance and have a good time.

We've tried different things. I run karaoke on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, and my overhead on that is a lot less. My basement bar is a dance club. I have a house system and I pay a DJ, but that's nothing compared to the cost of a band.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

The artists that are coming to this festival are some of the finest that you will ever see or hear, and yet they are not stars. This is not a festival about stars, but it's a festival about great music, great dance and great art.

That's the purpose of the commercial, she will dance with anyone. We need somebody that won't dance with anyone.

I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.

I was basically just walking by a dance studio that was advertising salsa lessons, and I thought I'd go in and see what it was all about, ... I fell in love with the fox-trot, the tango, the waltz, the cha cha.

You can experience a joy and catharsis that I'm not sure you can experience anywhere else in modern-day society, where you can actually let go and lose yourself in the one-ness of the dance floor, going off to the same beat. It's a very primal, very basic human experience.

You knew the dance numbers, and you knew that Fosse was gonna put it together, so you had to start at that level of energy again.

Wilson was a consummate entertainer. He truly loved to perform, and when he took the stage, he would give the audience every last bit of energy in his body. The unique sound and quality of his voice only got better with age, singing his hits in their original keys well into his 60s. He influenced generations of singers and musicians. No matter what your age is, his records will pull you out of your seat onto the dance floor. Soulful and intense, that was Pickett, the music and the man.

We can't expect it to dance all night like it did three or four years ago. It's not a teenager anymore. But it's still a bull based on good fundamentals.

We'll be playing nothing but dance music and after you hear what we play, it's so danceable, you can't sit still. That the way it works wherever we go.

We don't set a specific age limit, but we do emphasize that the dance is for the older crowd. We'll play a variety of big-band-style music.

We have a lot of fun. We play a lot of rock songs and yes, we're going to dance for you.

We had to turn up the colors in the dance sequences to make people feel that there were different levels of the film. I was not so fond of that, because it made the dancing more glamorous in a superficial way than what I really wanted, but it was necessary for the understanding of the two levels.

We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably heard that song about a hundred times, and I got back to L.A. and they asked if I wanted to sing that song.

Wade in the Water. It has different bass lines, reminiscent of what you might hear in a dance club.

We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'

We had one gentleman celebrate his 70th birthday during our last dance (in January).