List of Judith Jamison Quotes

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.

Dance Is Not Endangered - It Will Always Find A Way To Express Itself.

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.

I Have Been Guilty Of Watching Westerns Without Acknowledging That Native Americans Have Gone Through The Same Madness As African Americans. Isn't It Extraordinary That Sometimes The Most Offended Have Not Seen Others Being Offended?

I Was A Protege; By The Age Of 10, I Was Studying With Ballet Choreographer Anthony Tudor In A Class Of Adults.

I Felt The Naivete Of A Child In My Dancing. I Cherished That Feeling. I Had What I Call A Knowledgeable Naivete, And It Worked For Me.

The Word 'suffering' Is Not In My Vocabulary.

I Want People To Have Their Own Visions For The Dance. Some Generations Will Sit Back And Relate To The Music. And The Young People ...they'll Have The Dance Right In Front Of Them.

Every Dancer Lives On The Threshold Of Chucking It.

I've Danced All Over The World, And People Are People. We Cannot Cut Off From Each Other In Life. In Order To Lead, You Can't Do That.

I'm Moved By Contraries, By Opposites, The Strength That Was My Mother's Eyes, The Beauty Of My Father's Hands.

The First Time I Started Choreographing Was In The Dark, In My Living Room, With The Lights Completely Out, To Some Popular Music On The Radio. I Put The Radio On Full Blast And I Started Moving. I Didn't Know What It Looked Like. I Didn't Want To See It... I Had To Start In The Dark.