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.
MARTHA GRAHAMI believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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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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Discipline is liberation.
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All 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.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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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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