Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance. Twyla Tharp More Quotes by Twyla Tharp More Quotes From 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 gumhourshalf Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune. Twyla Tharp generositycommunityopposites The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. Twyla Tharp moviesexart Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse. Twyla Tharp limitssecretblessing There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that? Twyla Tharp specialpeopleart Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better. Twyla Tharp deep-thoughthumorifs In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. Twyla Tharp desperateclockworld But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working Twyla Tharp sawsstickscommitment 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 pianofourfather We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one. Twyla Tharp lastsrunningideas I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. Twyla Tharp shouldtwoyears Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss. Twyla Tharp destinykissingnice A dancer's life is all about repetition. Twyla Tharp boiled-eggsdancerlife-is I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster. Twyla Tharp reliefproblemideas Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss. Twyla Tharp harnesskissingpreparation Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak. Twyla Tharp responsibilitysightrunning 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 deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. Twyla Tharp impactfityears Art is running away without ever leaving home. Twyla Tharp homerunningart Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned. Twyla Tharp effortcreativityinspirational I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal. Twyla Tharp dancerealmotivational
