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.
MARTHA GRAHAMA 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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