Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAMEvery dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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 unique must be fulfilled.
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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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