Twyla Tharp Quotes about Children

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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

Twyla Tharp

Dance, Children, Dancer

Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Twyla Tharp

Children, Creativity, Artist

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.

Twyla Tharp

Children, Years, Dancing

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

Twyla Tharp

Mother, Children, Pieces

"The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

Twyla Tharp

Children, Mean, Dedication

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...

Twyla Tharp

Mother, Children, Years

"The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.