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I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
Oct 1, 2025
Music and dance are all you need.
There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.
Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.
I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.
Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.
I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.
Let's face the music and dance.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
If you can walk, you can run.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?
Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
Dance every performance as if it were your last.
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.
The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.