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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. — Twyla Tharp

Art is an investigation. — Twyla Tharp

Dance is the stepchild of the arts. — Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us. — Twyla Tharp

A dancer's life is all about repetition. — Twyla Tharp

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. — Twyla Tharp

Our guys have a vision of something bigger. — Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft — Twyla Tharp

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough. — Twyla Tharp

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart. — Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. — Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. — Twyla Tharp

I see dance as glue for a community. — Twyla Tharp

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. — Twyla Tharp

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that. — Twyla Tharp

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action. — Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. — Twyla Tharp

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. — Twyla Tharp

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. — Twyla Tharp

It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. — Twyla Tharp

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

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. — Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? — Billy Joel

Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead. — Twyla Tharp

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. — Twyla Tharp

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. — Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity. — Twyla Tharp

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. — Twyla Tharp

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. — Twyla Tharp

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. — Twyla Tharp

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. — Twyla Tharp

A commission is an invitation to fall in love. — Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. — Twyla Tharp

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me. — Twyla Tharp

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. — Twyla Tharp

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. — Twyla Tharp

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone. — Twyla Tharp

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. — Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece. — Twyla Tharp

Kids should be encouraged to compete. — Twyla Tharp

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. — Twyla Tharp

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult. — Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. — Twyla Tharp

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. — Twyla Tharp

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. — Twyla Tharp

When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life. — Twyla Tharp

I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do. — Twyla Tharp

Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? — Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! — Robert Gottlieb

I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass. — Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp

You either entertain an audience or you don't. — Twyla Tharp

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. — Twyla Tharp

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted. — Twyla Tharp

Like creativity, collaboration is a habit - and one I encourage you to develop. — Twyla Tharp

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. — Twyla Tharp

I do everything I know how in a dance. — Twyla Tharp

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. — Twyla Tharp

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance. — Twyla Tharp

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. — Twyla Tharp

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. — Twyla Tharp

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it. — Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp

Art is running away without ever leaving home. — Twyla Tharp

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. — Twyla Tharp

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources. — Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp

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 to be excellent. — Twyla Tharp

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. — Twyla Tharp

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. — Twyla Tharp

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box — Twyla Tharp

Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. — Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' — Twyla Tharp

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. — Twyla Tharp

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected. — Twyla Tharp

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas. — Twyla Tharp

Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement. — Twyla Tharp

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ... It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you. — Twyla Tharp

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes. — Twyla Tharp

The formal education that I received made little sense to me. — Twyla Tharp

There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks. — Twyla Tharp

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse. — Twyla Tharp

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. — Twyla Tharp

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one. — Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. — Twyla Tharp

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. — Twyla Tharp

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. — Twyla Tharp

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft. — Twyla Tharp

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential. — Twyla Tharp

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do. — Twyla Tharp

Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous. — Twyla Tharp

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. — Twyla Tharp