Dedication to Dance Quotes

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that's really what it's about - the striving for excellence.

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

It was my whole life; I spent all my time dancing, and I loved it very much.