Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
