Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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 time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.”

“A dancer's life is all about repetition.”

“Art is an investigation.”

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

“Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.”

“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, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.”

“I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.”

“People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'”

“Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.”

“A commission is an invitation to fall in love.”