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Top 30 Judith Jamison Quotes (2025 Update)

Judith Jamison Quote: “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.”

1. “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.”

2. “Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “It’s never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.”

3. “It’s never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Dance is about never-ending aspiration.”

4. “Dance is about never-ending aspiration.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing.”

5. “If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “The word ‘suffering’ is not in my vocabulary.”

6. “The word ‘suffering’ is not in my vocabulary.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance.”

7. “I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it’s like breathing.”

8. “Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it’s like breathing.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “So many people dwell on negativity and I’ve survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it’s harder each time to turn the power up again.”

10. “So many people dwell on negativity and I’ve survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it’s harder each time to turn the power up again.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “One you have danced, you always dance.”

11. “One you have danced, you always dance.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “You don’t enter a dance studio and say “I can’t do that.” If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”

12. “You don’t enter a dance studio and say “I can’t do that.” If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Excellence is the name of the game...”

13. “Excellence is the name of the game...”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”

14. “I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Once you’ve danced, you always dance. You can’t deny the gifts that God sends your way.”

15. “Once you’ve danced, you always dance. You can’t deny the gifts that God sends your way.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “It’s a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That’s beautiful to me.”

17. “It’s a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That’s beautiful to me.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I’m moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother’s eyes, the beauty of my father’s hands.”

18. “I’m moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother’s eyes, the beauty of my father’s hands.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.”

19. “Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.”

20. “People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Dancing is being trusted with other people’s guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I’m giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.”

21. “Dancing is being trusted with other people’s guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I’m giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I’ve always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.”

23. “I’ve always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.”

24. “Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.”

25. “I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I haven’t had a family, but I don’t think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

26. “I haven’t had a family, but I don’t think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.”

27. “Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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?”

29. “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?”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.”

30. “I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison Quote: “We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?”

32. “We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?”

— Judith Jamison

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