“In a society that worships love, freedom, and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.”
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
“Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”
Paulo Coelho
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
Michael Jackson
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
Agnes De Mille
“I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man – the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.”
Martha Graham
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting... Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Oprah Winfrey
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”
Merce Cunningham
“This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endures – symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.”
Alexandra Katehakis
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”
Lynda Barr
“Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune.”
Deepak Chopra
“There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it… We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.”
Alvin Ailey

MUSIC
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
Martin Luther
“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.”
Osho
“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience.”
Lyall Watson
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”
Gene Kelly