#Dance Quotes #Purpose Quotes
“Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.”
“No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.”
“When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.”
“If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.”
“Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.”
“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
“No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.”
Alwin Nikolais Choreographer
Doris Humphrey
Jose Limon
Martha Graham Choreographer
Mary Wigman
Murray Louis Dancer
Pearl Primus
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
