Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
MARTHA GRAHAMIt’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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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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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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