People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
MARTHA GRAHAM
It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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