413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

I do at least 75 push-ups a day.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box