I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAM
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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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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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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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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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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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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