Judith Jamison Quotes

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• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
• It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and…
• I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance
• I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that…
• I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
• It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each…
• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do…
• Excellence is the name of the game...
• We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to…
• Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way
• Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody.…
• Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
• I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
• I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
• I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
• I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could…
• I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't…
• The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger…
• If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will…

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