Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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