Judith Jamison quotes and sayings
Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
Judith Jamison quotes
- Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
- 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 be.
- The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
- People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
- 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. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.
- Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.
- I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
- I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
- I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
- I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.