MUSINGS ON DANCING

• The forms of Tango are like stages of a marriage. The American Tango is like the beginning of a love affair, when you are both very romantic and on your best behaviour. The Argentine Tango is when you are in the heat of things and all kinds of emotions are flying: passion, anger, humor. The International Tango is like the end of the marriage, when you are staying together for the sake of the children. -- Barbara Garvey, in the Smithsonian Magazine
• Dance not just with your feet, but with your entire body.
• To dance or not to dance? What a silly question.
• Your head may know the steps, but only your body can truly dance.
• "What's relativity? Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Dance with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -- Albert Einstein
• In dancing, practice doesn't make perfect; it makes permanent.
• Love is a lot like dancing; you have to surrender to the music.
• "Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing." -- Friedrich Nietzche
• "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." -- George Bernard Shaw
• "The proof of the popularity of dancing can best be judged by the huge literature of its condemnation." -- Walter Sorrell
• "To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated." -- Plato
• Darling, could we sit this one out, your feet are killing me.
• The first question is "Can he walk?" The second is "Can he dance?"
• When Socrates was an old man, he learned to dance and thought it time well-spent.
• "Dance like no one is watching." -- Mark Twain
• "When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. Then one day, you learn to dance, and it is so different." -- Bill Austin
• "Dance is music made visible." -- George Balanchine
• "I don't try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." -- Baryshnikov
• Leading is difficult, following is even more difficult.
• "Beginning dancer, knows nothing; intermediate dancer, knows everything and doesn't dance with beginners; advanced dancer, dances everything, especially with beginners." -- Dick Crum
• He who cannot dance blames the floor.
• Not all of us can be ballet dancers, but all of us can dance.
• "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
• A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.
• Dance is like aerobics, only the music's better and you get to cuddle.
• Tango is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
• It's not the turning that's hard in dancing, it's that you gotta keep doing it.
• Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and in high heels.
• A king is judged by the state of dance during his reign.
• Dancing is like walking, but once you fall behind the music, you can never catch up.

Thanks to Norm for contributing his finds.