Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“You either entertain an audience or you don't.”

“I see dance as glue for a community.”

“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.”

“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.”

“These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.”

“I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing.”

“I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.”

“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.”

“Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.”

“'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.”