Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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