Twyla Tharp Quotes

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• 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… Better
• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're… Absolutely
• I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I… Allowed
• I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description,… Dancing
• 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… Best
• 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… Challenge
• In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we… Afford
• 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… College
• 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.… Dominant
• 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… Born
• 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… Activities
• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. Called
• 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… Along
• 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… Bodies
• 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… Any
• Creativity is an act of defiance. Act
• Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead. Change
• 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… Believe
• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. Bad Ass
• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a… All

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