Twyla Tharp Quotes

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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…
• I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
• Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
• I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
• It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
• 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…
• Art is an investigation.
• I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
• Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
• I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
• I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
• I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
• The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
• The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

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