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.
MARTHA GRAHAMPeople 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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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.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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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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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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