Twyla Tharp Quotes

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

Music, Art, Dance

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 were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Women, Today

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 my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

Wise, Made, Difficult

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

Business, Judgment, Existing

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. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
Twyla Tharp

Life, Education, Mother

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 educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
Twyla Tharp

Family, War, Mother

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 thing.
Twyla Tharp

Dance, Activities, Painters

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

Education, Made, Sense

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

Change, Business, Fear

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
Twyla Tharp

Different, Dancing, Rewards

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.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Means, Word

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 melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
Twyla Tharp

Time, Father, Gift

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 at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
Twyla Tharp

Music, Mother, Remember

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 mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp

Mother, Children, High

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: July 1, 1941

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