Judith Jamison Quotes

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

I loved dance.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Dance is my passion.

I am a dancer at heart.

Dance should touch people.

Dance has been very close to my heart. I am very passionate about it.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Dance is so joyous.

What we play is life.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Dance should mean something to you.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

My love for dance was so strong.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.