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.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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.
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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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If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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