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"TOP TEN DANCE QUOTES"

1. Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners.
Attributed to Dick Crum(?), a folk dance teacher.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split second timing.
Twyla Tharp.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.
Source unknown.

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James.

All dancing girls are nineteen years old.
Japanese Proverb.

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

In life, as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
Alice Abrams.

The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character and unmarried ladies should refrain from it ... very young married ladies may be allowed to waltz if it is very seldom ...
From "The Gentleman And Lady's Book Of Politeness", 2nd American Edition, Boston: Allen and Ticknor and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
Martha Graham.