“The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.”

We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.

It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

The body says what words cannot.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances.

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

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