Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMAll that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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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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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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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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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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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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