I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAMNobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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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 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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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