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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Art is an investigation.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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You double your intensity with skill.
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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.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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