Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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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.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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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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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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