Dancing and dancing are scenic arts that enjoy great popularity today . The different types of dance range from classical (ballet, tap, classical dance…) to modern variants of hip-hop, rhythm and blues, etc.

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We talked about the benefits of dance in a previous article, and even about the advantages of physical exercise. In short, dance and dancing are art forms that not only develop our emotional and theatrical facets, but also our motor and body skills.

Famous Phrases on Dance

In today’s article we are going to review the best phrases of Dance and Dance pronounced by choreographers and artists of all times.

1. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being yourself. (Paulo Coelho)

The Brazilian writer talks like this about the art of dance.

2. Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Martha Graham)

A form of introspection.

3. Music is the universal language of humanity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

One of those phrases about music that restores our faith in art.

4. Being creative means being in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough to want to enhance its beauty, want to bring a little more music, a little more poetry, a little more dance. (Osho)

About the creative mind.

5. My heart, which is overflowing, has often been comforted and refreshed by music when I am ill and tired. (Martin Luther)

Music has real healing properties.

6. Dance can reveal all the mystery that music grants. (Charles Baudelaire)

Two arts of almost mystical association.

7. Every dance you do belongs to you. It’s part of your collection. When you think about it, you’ll want your next routine to be the best you’ve ever done! (Torron-Lee Dewar)

A unique and special experience.

8. Music moves us emotionally, where words alone cannot. (Johnny Depp)

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor talks about music like this.

9. Through the synergy of intellect, art and grace came the blessing of a dancer. (Shah Asad Rizvi)

An almost intellectual connection.

10. Music is an explosion of the soul. (Frederick Delius)

The creative capacity drinks from the animated genius of each artist.

11. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life by bringing peace and abolishing strife. (Kahlil Gibran)

The rhythm invites us to wiggle as if there were no tomorrow.

12. Everything in the universe has a rhythm. Everything dances. (Maya Angelou)

A global vision about the art of dance.

13. Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without. (Confucius)

Great reflection by the Eastern philosopher.

14. Let us read, and let us dance; these two diversions will never do the world any harm. (Voltaire)

One of those dance lines to take life with a different mentality.

15. Dancers are instruments, like a piano played by the choreographer. (George Balanchine)

Brutal metaphor of the Russian-born choreographer.

16. I would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing in the moonlight with the flamenco guitar. (Janet Fitch)

Poetic reflection on the feeling that music awakens in us.

17. We should consider lost the days when we haven’t danced at least once. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Even the German philosopher liked to dance.

18. To dance is to reach for a word that does not exist. To sing a song of a thousand generations. To feel the meaning of a moment. (Beth Jones)

About the mysticism of dancing.

19. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. (Eckhart Tolle)

Metaphor for floating in the confines of life.

20. Because I have trained myself and am always training myself to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought. (Søren Kierkegaard)

The philosophical mind also requires a good rhythmic wiggle.

21. When the words go, the music starts. (Heinrich Heine)

Music says things that words can’t.

22. Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music deeply rooted within us to which we dance, even when we cannot name the melody. (Deepak Chopra)

The Indian writer talks like this about the human essence.

23. It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. (Shanna LaFleur)

A key differentiation between physical and artistic skills.

24. To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything that lives has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? (Michael Jackson)

The mythical American musician talks like this about the art of dancing.

25. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being yourself. (Paulo Coelho)

You alone against the world.

26. Hardly anyone dances sober, except people who are crazy. (H.P. Lovecraft)

Even the writer of horror novels has some nice words about dancing.

27. The dancers are God’s athletes. (Albert Einstein)

Great line from the Jewish scientist.

28. Music and dance are two arts that are intimately linked. (Molière)

Almost an obvious one.

29. When I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be happy and feel fulfilled. (Hans Bos)

About the therapeutic capabilities of dancing.

30. Dance is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (George Bernard Shaw)

An ironic metaphor that only the sharpest minds will understand.

31. For me, to get moving, is to start meditating. (Maurice Béjart)

Meditation, a logical consequence of dance?

32. I always believe that dance contains four arts. Music, choreography, painting and literature. (George de las Cuevas)

Dancing is not just about moving your body.

33. A dancer dances because his blood dances in his veins. (Anna Pavlova)

It’s almost a way of being and feeling.

34. A sacred dance, like the sap in the trees. (Archie Ammons)

Music and dance are part of the most essential.

35. If I could tell you how it feels, it wouldn’t be worth dancing to. (Isadora Duncan)

The American dancer talks about the need to express herself through dance.

36. I was born by the sea. My first idea of movement and dance surely came from the rhythm of the waves… (Isadora Duncan)

Poetic reflection that can make us think.

37. To dance is to feel, to feel is to suffer, to suffer is to love; You love, suffer and feel. You dance! (Isadora Duncan)

Emotions and their influence on the art of dance

38. All the arts are involved in the cinema: the plastic arts, through photography; music, through sound; literature, through the plot and also dance, through the editing, which is really fascinating. (Raúl Soldi)

The Argentinean artist talks like this about cinema.

39. Everyone knows what Fado is, that dance so voluptuous, so varied that it seems to be the daughter of the most refined study of art. A simple guitar works better than any other instrument. (Manuel Antonio de Almeida)

The Brazilian writer has these beautiful words about dancing.

40. Being one with life means being one with the now. Then we realize that we do not live life, but that life lives us. Life is the dancer and we are the dance. (Eckhart Tolle)

A reflection very close to the Mindfulness philosophy.

41. Dance in the body you have. (Agnes de Mille)

Whatever your skeleton is, it’s designed to move.

42. When I was young I had no intention of going down that road. However, since I was a child I liked his elegant ways and even then I used to visit Udyi’s neighborhood. I became fond of fashion. I discovered that I had a knack for dancing and that almost everyone praised me, which pleased me enormously. (Ihara Saikaku)

A biographical note on the Japanese novelist.

43. Dance is the world’s favorite metaphor. (Kristy Nilsson)

Masterful thinking about the plasticity of dance.

44. There’s a little madness in dancing that does everyone a lot of good. (Edwin Denby)

To dance is to free oneself from many tensions and accumulated fears.

45. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Vicki Baum)

About the ability of dance to make us feel good.

46. Those who dance are considered crazy by those who cannot hear the music. (George Carlin)

They’re only crazy for those who don’t pay attention to the magic of music.

47. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It is to enjoy every step you take. (Wayne Dyer)

Absurd movement, but basic to live.

48. God, set me up with a good dancer. (William Shakespeare)

Even the English writer was clear about who could make him happy.

49. Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance. (Mr. Miyagi)

Funny thought from the genius of The Karate Kid.

50. Dancing is moving to music without stepping on someone’s feet, much like life. (Robert Brault)

Spectacular metaphor that combines dance and love.

51. Poetry is to prose what dance is to walking. (John Wain)

A beautiful and orderly way of walking.

52. We are fools whether we dance or not, so we should dance. (Japanese proverb)

Nothing matters, so let’s at least have fun.

53. Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. (James Brown)

The genius of soul was totally clear.

54. When the music changes, so does the dancing. (African proverb)

Rhythm determines our feeling.

55. Embrace each step with intensity, dance and unleash your emotions. (Anonymous)

A form of emotional catharsis that repairs the wounds of the past.

56. Nobody cares if you don’t dance well, just get up and dance. (Dave Barry)

Get over your fears and get on the track.

57. Dance like nobody’s looking. (Anonymous)

In the line of the previous sentence.

58. Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough. (Groucho Marx)

Great dance line from the legendary comedian.

59. Dance, dance is the unique art of which we ourselves are the material of which it is made. (Ted Shawn)

An art that needs nothing more than our own bodies and movements.

60. It is true that in dancing the soul of beauty, which more than the face, seeks to persuade and fall in love. (Lope de Vega)

A great reflection of Spanish literature.

61. Live like you’re going to die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, dance like no one’s looking. (Bob Fosse)

Three tips to apply to your daily life.

62. God respects you when you work but loves you when you dance. (Sufi proverb)

Never forget to enjoy life.

63. The dance is not in the step, but between the step and the step. To do one movement after another is nothing more than that, movements. How and why it is linked and what is meant by them, that is what is important. (Antonio Gades)

The fluidity between movements, the key to the dance.

64. Poetry, music and dance are the echo of smiles and cries that exalt the human being with their mathematical rhythms. (Homer Cerecedo Exelente)

A very special metaphor about the beauty of dance and dancing.

65. I wanted to do new things in dance, to adapt it to the medium of moving images. (Gene Kelly)

It takes more than innovation to innovate in dance.

66. For years she photographed people jumping; she believed that the dancing, the dancing and the jumping made the mask fall and gave the real image of the people. (Albert Espinosa)

The Catalan filmmaker talks like this about dance.

67. 37 seconds, we breathe, we dance, we regenerate, the heart beats, the mind creates, the soul absorbs, 37 seconds well used is a lifetime. (Dustin Hoffman)

One of those dance lines that makes our hair stand on end.

68. Dance is considered a vertical act born of a horizontal desire. (Allan Pease)

Great line with a lot of upbeat connotations.

69. Yes, I know. Silencing my natural gift and dancing like a straight guy. (Eric Stonestreet)

That’s how I defined dancing.

70. Dance is nothing more than the reflection of what our body turns into art. (Antonio Gades)

Another reflection of the Spanish choreographer, in the form of a famous quote.

71. My ballet is the people’s. (Antonio Gades)

Culture cannot be anyone’s private property.

72. At home I sometimes sing and dance in my underwear and that doesn’t make me Madonna. (Joan Cusack)

Of course, no one has rhythm in their veins like the American singer.

73. And now I want to dance. I want to win. I want that trophy. (Uma Thurman)

The actress, in one of her most famous quotes.

74. I can’t dance properly but I like to jump. It’s like having shock and spasms. (Damon Albarn)

Among all the dance phrases, perhaps this is the one that encourages us to dance without thinking too much.

75. Mick Jagger moves like he’s doing a parody of a majorette and Fred Astaire mix. (Truman Capote)

On the art of the Rolling Stones singer.