Fun Dance Quotes

Dance has been mentioned in literature for a long time. Every now and again there will be a "nifty" passage that warrants repeating.

​If you have see a dance quote that you like, send it to Dancers@LouisvilleECD.org and we'll add it here.

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"Slow music exposes bad dancers."
Thomas Wilson, ca. 1812

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"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
Vicki Baum

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The Human Body was designed to walk, run, or stop; it wasn’t built for coasting.
C Hightower

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Life is not a journey of coasting to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well  preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways thoroughly used up, totally worn out and proclaiming   WOW WHAT A RIDE!!! 
Hunter S. Thompson, "Gonzo"

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.   Friedrich Nietzsche

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...frequent disputes arose in the Ball Room, by different persons performing the Figure differently from others, and each persisting in his own opinion, and declaring his manner of performing the Figure to be correct.
Thomas Wilson, The Complete System of English Country Dancing, 1815

http://regencydances.org/interpretation.php

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"A woman who has waltzed for fifteen minutes is in the same condition as a woman who has drunk champagne."
Havelock Ellis