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Dancing Quotes by Martha Graham
- In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
- Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
- You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- 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…
- Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a…
- Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
- Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
- Nothing is more revealing than movement.
- 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…
- I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,…
- 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.
- Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
- At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance…
- Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
- Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that…
- 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…
- I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
- My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon