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

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Music
Heart
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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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.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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