Folk Dance Quotes

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

My mother was a champion Irish dancer and singer and most of my family were musical, particularly in Irish dancing. Music is all about spewing out your emotions. A mixture of a good tune and a good beat and everyone playing their guts out and something that grabs people's attention.

I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.

The South is a place for music, dance, and culture.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.