Twyla Tharp quotes - page 2

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. (Twyla Tharp)
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. View quote
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. View quote
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. View quote
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. View quote
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. View quote
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Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. View quote
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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read. View quote
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. (Twyla Tharp)
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. View quote
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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. View quote
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. View quote
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. View quote
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. View quote
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to. (Twyla Tharp)
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. View quote
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. View quote
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. View quote
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. View quote
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