Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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