Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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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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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Discipline is liberation.
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