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Twyla Tharp Quote: “There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn’t lie, which words easily can do.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There’s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I’ve always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work – the rest is style.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I’ve always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied. From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked. There was no social life.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “The formal education that I received made little sense to me.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “We’re a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Nobody likes to see that which they’ve invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they’ve even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That’s from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “If you’re at a dead end, take a deep breath, stamp your foot, and shout “Begin!” You never know where it will take you.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Without passion, all the skill in world won’t lift you above your craft.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut...”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Another thing about knowing who you are is that you know what you should not be doing, which can save you a lot of heartaches and false starts if you catch it early on.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I’m not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn’t.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone’s exhausted. Get focused, do it!”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don’t often get the chance to see how close they can come.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I’ve always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it’s important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “It’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Movement stimulates our brains in ways we don’t appreciate.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Do them anyway – you can never spend enough time on the basics.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Whenever I feel I’m working in a groove it’s invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I don’t mean this, but I’m going to say it anyway. I don’t really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I’m not tall enough.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it’s simply because I wasn’t that committed to geometry.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don’t really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Remember at all times that you’re the one who’ll be judged by the final product.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn’t mean I haven’t wanted it to be excellent.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they’re doing, and you leave them alone to do it.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “In Hollywood, an adventure movie with two guys doesn’t quite qualify as an idea. Two guys and a bear does. It adheres to the unshakable rule that you don’t have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.”
Twyla Tharp Quote: “They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you’ve begun.”
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