We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Nobody 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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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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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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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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The body says what words cannot.
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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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