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Quotes... A great compilation from Steve Minkin of Healdsburg CA (steveminkin.com).
ON DANCING
... the hilarious joy, the laughing abandonment, the rhythmic ecstasy, the contagious good fellowship, without which the dances are nothing at all.
– Lloyd "Pappy" Shaw, the father of modern square dancing
Dancers are the athletes of God.
– Albert Einstein
Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff.
– Rahel Varnhagen
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
– T.S. Eliot
Look at the graceful way she dances:
One foot speaks, the other answers.
– Elvis Costello
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
– William Butler Yeats
Zorba, teach me to dance!
– Nikos Kazantzakis
That which cannot be spoken can be sung,
That which cannot be sung can be danced.
– Old French Saying
True freedom is being able to dance in your chains.
– Fredrich Nietzsche
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
– Yiddish Proverb
On Music
Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Fredrich Nietzsche
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
– Gustav Mahler
...Music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.
– T.S. Eliot
We do feel, in our most valued musical experiences, that we are making contact with a great spirit, and not simply with a prodigious musical faculty.
– JWN Sullivan
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
– GB Shaw, Man and Superman
The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men lie like dogs. There is also a negative side.
– Hunter S. Thomson
Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that George Szell is his own worst enemy. "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing.
The German conductor Hans Buelow detested two members of an orchestra, who were named Schultz and Schmidt. Upon being told that Schmidt had died, von Buelow immediately asked, "And Schultz?"
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
– Mark Twain
Why thank you so much. I adore to.
I don't want to dance with him. I don't want to dance with anybody. And even if I did, it wouldn't be him. He'd be well down among the last ten. I've seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night. Just think, not a quarter of an hour ago, here I was sitting, feeling so sorry for the poor girl he was dancing with. And now I'm going to be the poor girl. Well, well. Isn't it a small world?...
But what could I do? Everyone else at the table had got up to dance, except him and me. There was I, trapped. Trapped like a trap in a trap.
– Dorothy Parker, from "The Waltz
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week!
– Janis Joplin, upon learning that Eisenhower's death had bumped her picture from the cover of Newsweek
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. Your review is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
– Composer Max Reger's response to a critic who compared his music to what might be written by a crabbed myopic spider
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
– Wallace Stevens