Remo D'Souza Quotes

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spears. When they would dance onstage and in their videos, that was huge for me. I lived for that.

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

Anybody cannot be a dancer. A dancer must have a certain posture, gestures, height, behaviour.

Sayyeesha is a great dancer.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

I'm a huge fan of Beyonce for so many reasons, and not the reasons that most people are. There's the obvious reasons - she's gorgeous, she's talented or whatever, but I think she's really super-consistent.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.