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I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

From Twyla Tharp

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

From Twyla Tharp

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

From Twyla Tharp

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

From Twyla Tharp

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.

From Twyla Tharp

I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'

From Twyla Tharp

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

From Twyla Tharp

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

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Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

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