Where would I be without Johann Strauss’s beautiful ‘Blue Danube?’ Without this piece of music I wouldn’t be the man I am today. It’s a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

Umm, correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You’re waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?” (Ash)”Hell no,” Corey said. “I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

Much as I’m loving the ‘Strictly‘ experience, I’m sure I’ll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on ‘Dragons‘ Den’ than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.

I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile.” “You think my smile is beguiling?

The truth is, I’ve been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, ‘I can’t believe seven years has gone by, and I’m going to miss all these people.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.’ So there’s that.

Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being ‘damaging to the soul.’

The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it’s a popular waltz; for others, a march.

Working on ‘The Last Waltz’ introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

There are so many different versions of “Tennessee Waltz” and they’re all so good.

Even Christoph Waltz’s character, Colonel Landa in ‘Inglourious Basterds’, I never judged him.

I love learning things, whether it’s a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in ‘Django [Unchained]’ – Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there’s never a moment where Django plays the piano.

-‘I don’t see what good it’s going to do for you to waltz back in there and–‘ -‘Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.

Outside the street‘s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

After the ‘Last Waltz’ concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

There’s a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I’m playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there’s crowd-surfing. Most of the time there’s a mosh pit.

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it’s believable.

With the waltz, especially the Viennese Waltz, it looks so beautiful and effortless and flows.

For years after ‘The Last Waltz,’ I got all kinds of silly movie offers – or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it’s really not.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

If the two economies can figure out how to waltz… I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses‘ nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

My small experience on ‘Dancing with the Stars‘ allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn’t a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

Tus Ojitos’ is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.

I wrote and directed a movie called ‘Two-Bit Waltz.’

When I met Christophe Waltz, I was so shy! I was like, ‘Oh, hi! Um, I’m Stephanie!’ He’s one of my favorite actors.

For years after ‘The Last Waltz,’ I got all kinds of silly movie offers – or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling… lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was ‘Waltz With Bashir,’ or ‘The Gatekeepers,’ or ‘5 Broken Cameras.’

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

When I did the video for “Piledriver Waltz,” I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they’re risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They’re in danger!

Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.