Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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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.
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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.
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