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Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

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

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

My motto - sans limites.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

My muse must come to me on union time.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

No sane man will dance.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Nobody is born a dancer.

No sober person dances.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.