Christine and the Queens Quotes

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

I've been dancing since I was five. To me, dance is a visual representation of being free and empowered.

It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

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

The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Dance is so joyous.

As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what I'm saying?

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'