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.
MARTHA GRAHAMFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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