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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Martha Graham

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Censor One Liner
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
The body says what words cannot.
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Body One Liner Word
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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Cultivate Feeling Right Storm Technique Yourself
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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Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Alive Feeling Intense Myself People
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance Fall Inspirational Myself
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Lying Movement Reading Soul State
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
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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Care Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion
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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Choice Dance Life People Yourself

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