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Dancer Quotes by Martha Graham
- ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is…
- I 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…
- The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at…
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the…
- Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
- People 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 can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance…
- Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
- Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
- It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing,…
- In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
- 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…
- Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
- A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as…
- 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…
- To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of…
More Dancer Quotes
- One is born to be a great dancer. — George Balanchine
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I am not the first straight dancer or the last. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Nobody is born a dancer. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and… — Warren G. Bennis
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had… — Christina Aguilera
- The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand