Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and sh...
If there is one thing I can say without a doubt, it is that tragedy can make great music. Every single song I have ever written has been born of tragedy and heartache, and being able to make something beautiful out of pain is powerful. When you open ...
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
And what was dancing but fucking with your clothes on?
I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
I knew you by your step. It’s a dancing step, a joyful step.
With you I'd dance in the rain in my best dress, fearless
Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
