Twyla Tharp Quotes About Energy

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

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

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• I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

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• The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

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  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

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

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• I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

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  Dance  

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

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• There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

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• Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

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  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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