413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

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

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.