Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers 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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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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A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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