The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMDance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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