150 Dance Quotes That Are Inspirational And Funny
Dance has been an integral part of life for thousands of years. Here, you will find incredible dance quotes that will inspire you.
The term “dance” could mean a myriad of things. Dancing is a way of life and a form of expression which began way before civilization. Some say it is an art that allows people to express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. It is also considered the medium through which our mind and body connect to music. All of these are factual ways they describe the act of dancing.
But, why do people dance? People dance for many different reasons. It can help people stay active, entertain others, socialize, and develop physical and creative skills. Whether you dance professionally, with good company, or in the comfort of your home, one thing is for certain— it will give you mental clarity.
In the book, Dancing Is the Best Medicine, Argentine Tango Dancers Julia Christensen and Dong-Seon Chang, writes “Dance is an antidote to stress, a way to combat negative emotions, an elixir for the body, mind, and brain.”
Did you know that the 29th of April is the annual international dance day? There is no better way to celebrate and express happiness than dancing. Imagine a party where there is no dancing, not much fun huh? Although people do not need to be happy to dance, in fact, we often feel happier and revitalize after dancing.
Dance is also a learned cultural practice. For instance, Salsa is a dance of Latin origin, Tango is a dance created in the Argentinean region of Rio de la Plata in the 19th century and Jazz dancing can be traced to African traditions that started in the seventeenth century.
And interestingly, some people find dancing to be embarrassing because they are not confident in their ability to “dance”. In actuality, there is no right way or wrong way to dance. Some moves may be off rhythm but never wrong and anyone can learn to be an excellent dancer if they put their mind to it.
If you need some dance motivation or want to motivate others, you’re in the right place!
In this article, we’ve compiled 150 inspirational and funny dance quotes that you will find interesting.
Inspirational Dance Quotes
1. “Dancing is the world’s favorite metaphor.” – Kristy Nilsson
2. “Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” – Martha Graham
3. “The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” – Mata Hari
4. “Do a loony-goony dance, ‘cross the kitchen floor, put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.” – Shel Silverstein
5. “Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.” – Agnes de Mille
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6. “Dancers are made, not born.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
7. “Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done.” – Jerome Robbins
8. “Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.” – Misty Copeland
9. “Dancers are the athletes of God.” – Albert Einstein
10. “When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” – Paulo Coelho
11. “Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.” – Peter Saint James
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12. “Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.” – Shah Asad Rizvi
13. “Dancers are both athletes and artists.” – Margot Fonteyn
14. When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.” – Katherine Jenkins
15. “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” – Oprah Winfrey
16. “Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.” – Martha Graham
17. “Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
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18. “If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance.” – Chuck Berry
19. “You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.” – Katherine Dunham
20. “Dancing is silent poetry.” – Simonides
21. “Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.” – Agnes de Mille
22. “Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
23. “I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.” – Merce Cunningham
24. “Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.” – Shah Asad Rizvi
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25. “Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.” – Neve Campbell
26. “When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.” – Normani Kordei
27. “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.” – Gene Kelly
28. “Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.” – Unknown
29. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.” – Samuel Beckett
30. “Dance like nobody’s looking.” – Mark Twain
31. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
32. “Great dancers are great because of their passion.” –Martha Graham
33. “Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” – Ted Shawn
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34. “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” – Dave Barry
35. “If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.” – George Carlin
36. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” – Voltaire
37. “Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.” – Constanze
38. “Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.” – Louis Horst
39. “Dancing – however you do it, even if it’s in your living room – is a great workout.” – Ciara
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40. “Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.” – George Bernard Shaw
41. “I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.” – Ruth St. Denis
42. “I don’t want to hide. I want to slow dance with you again. I want to dance with you forever.” – Sarah Black
43. “Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.” – Scott Nilsson
44. “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
45. “I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.” – Inga Muscio
46. “Dance from your heart and let your passion shine through.” – Dance Moms Reality TV Show
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47. “I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.” – George Balanchine
48. “I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.” – Pina Bausch
49. “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
50. “I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.” – Channing Tatum
51. “I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I’ll dance.” – Gael Garcia Bernal
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52. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” – Wayne Dyer
53. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts
54. “The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of Life really takes place.” – Barbara De Angelis
55. “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dance.” –Maya Angelou
56. “It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” – Xiaolu Guo
57. “Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” — John Dryden
58. “Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.” – Lynda Barr
59. “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.” — Indian Proverb
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60. “Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” – Steve Maraboli
61. “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” — Jane Austen
62. “The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.” — Agnes de Mille
63. “Dance every performance as if it were your last.” — Erik Bruhn
64. “Dance is art; paint your dream and follow it.” — Steven Thompson
65. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
66. “Dance enables you to find yourself and lose yourself at the same time.” — Unknown
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67. “Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.” — Unknown
68. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle
69. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”― Alan Wilson Watts
70. “She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”―Janet Fitch
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71. “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
72. “She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”― Monique Duval
73. “We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”― Kamand Kojouri
74. “If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing.”― Judith Jamison
75. “Words his soul danced to.”― David Malouf
76. “Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first).”― John D. Rhodes
77. “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” George Bernard Shaw
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78. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”― Amit Ray
79. “Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”― Erol Ozan
80. “Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.” ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
81. “If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.”― Melody Carstairs
82. “Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.” – Kamand Kojouri
83. “People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. ”― Martha Graham
84. “It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.” ― Dan Pearce
85. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.”― Susan Polis Schutz
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86. “Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.” – Misty Copeland
87. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” – Wayne Dyer
88. “Life doesn’t step on your toes when you Dance Lightly”.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
89. “The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” — Charles Baudelaire
90. “Dance isn’t something that can be explained in words. It has to be danced.” – Paige Arden
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91. “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
92. “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
93. “Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon.” — Edward Lear
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94. “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
95. “Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.” – Simon Fowler
96. “Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness, and envy.” – Jaques D’Ambroise
97. “Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.” — Louis Horst
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98. “One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.”- Mary Anne Radmacher
99. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown
100. “Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.” – Martha Graham
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Funny Dance Quotes
101. “Dancing is cheaper than therapy” – Unknown
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102. “My signature dance move is ‘the sit and nod’.” – Unknown
103. “Why be moody when you can shake your booty?”– Unknown
104. “At my age, the only pole dancing I do is to hold on to the safety bar in the bathtub.”– Unknown
105. “Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.” – James Howe
106. “I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.” – Rita Rudner
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107. “I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.” – Bob Hope
108. “The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”Amit Kalantri
109. “Yes, I dance in my car. Yes, I see you staring at me. No, I don’t care.”– Unknown
110. “My superpower is dancing in heels.”– Unknown
111. “We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” – Japanese Proverb
112. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.” – Samuel Beckett
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113. “When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.” – Ray Romano
114. “You can teach an elephant to dance, but the likelihood of its stepping on your toes is very high.” – Gary Moss
115. “Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.” –Jamaican Proverb
116. “If a man doesn’t know how to dance he doesn’t know how to make love, there I said it!” – Craig Ferguson
117. “A charity ball is like a dance except it’s tax deductible.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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118. “Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.” – Twyla Tharp
119. Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing. – Twyla Tharp
120. “When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.” – Blake Lively
121. Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.- Milan Kundera
122. “I only dance when feeling insane. It never works when I am sober.”–Unknown
123. “Dance like no one is watching… Because they are not… They are checking their phone.” –Unknown
124. “Dance to express, not to impress.” –Unknown
125. “There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”- Vicki Baum
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126. “I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.” – Gene Kelly
127. “Love teaches even asses to dance.” – French Proverb
128. The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.- James Brown
129. “I don’t even like dancing, I’m just here because my mom said she would buy me tacos.” – Dance Moms Reality TV Show
130. There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
– Edwin Denby
131. “Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.” – Christopher Morley
132. “When I dance, people think my body is itching.” –Unknown
133. “My dance style ranges from white dad at a barbeque to a st*ripper whose rent is due tomorrow.” –Unknown
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134. “Sorry I missed your call. I was dancing to the ringtone.” –Unknown
135. “In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV.” – Erma Bombeck
136. “Do a loony-goony dance ‘Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain’t been there before.” – Shel Silverstein
137. “My dance moves are like a bad pun; they make you groan, but you can’t help but laugh at how outrageous everything is.” –Unknown
138. “Practice makes perfect, I say, but in my case, it just makes for increasingly funny dance disasters.” –Unknown
139. “Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them.” — Unknown
140. “Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” – Charles Baudelaire
141. “My dancing skills are like a rare delicacy; you can’t decide whether to laugh or call the police.” –Unknown
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142. “There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.”–Unknown
143. “Dancing is like a shower: one wrong turn and you’re in hot water!” — Mad Magazine
144. “I’m not a professional dancer, but I can assure you that I can trip over my own feet with the best of them.” –Unknown
145. “Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.”– Ginger Rogers
146. “I would definitely win gold in the Most Ridiculous Moves category if dancing were an Olympic sport. –Unknown
147. My dance style is like dancing like a drunk jellyfish and a broken robot. It’s something to see, or maybe something to forget. –Unknown
148. “Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step, it is an old business procedure.” – Fran Liebowitz
149. “If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw
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150. “My mom took up belly dancing. In order to make it seem like she was moving, my father and I had to jiggle the furniture in back of her.”- Rita Rudner
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