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.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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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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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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