I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
MARTHA GRAHAM
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM