Top 1200 Dancers Inspiration Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

I thought the musical aspect of 'Freak Dance' was a good contrast to how dancers always try to come off as really tough in those movies - they're trying to literally come off as gangs like as if the Crips and the Bloods are also dancing in addition or instead of fighting with guns and knives and stuff.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

I'm not really a girly girl, so for the most part, I'm really into wearing baggy clothes. A little on the grungy side of things for the dance world. I'm not really into the tutus or the flower hair clips, either. As dancers, we're pretty much next to naked with each other all day, so you kind of get used to being not so clothed.

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

'ABCD' is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me in this film. It was very tough for me to match their steps.

I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy.

That's where I take all my inspiration from is my own life and experiences, things I enjoy and am a fan of.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.