All Judith Jamison Quotes
- Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you. Craft
- 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… Children
- I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance Believe
- 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… Acknowledging
- 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. Always Felt
- 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… Beautiful
- 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… Ballet
- Excellence is the name of the game... African American
- 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… African American
- Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way Always Dance
- 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.… All
- Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself. Always Find
- I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family. Dancer
- I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being. Develop
- I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. Adult
- 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… All
- 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… All
- The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary. Inspirational
- 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… Arm
- 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… Body
- You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first… Dance
- The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the… Blast
- People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. Beauty
- Dance is about never-ending aspiration. Aspiration
- I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. Beauty