I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you… — 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
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
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
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
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. — 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
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a… — 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
It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going… — 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
