#dancer

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#burned #dancer #died #down #fire

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#corner #dancer #either #guitar #guitar player

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#artist #artists #artists-life #dancer #musician

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#anxious #could #dancer #down #enough

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#actually #dancer #exotic #i #out

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#dancers #going #i #knowing #need

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#care #dancer #enough #get #good

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#dancer #little #you

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#dancer #i #liked #lot #read